Roma Rudd Turkel
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Roma Rudd Turkel | |
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 Roma Rudd Turkel, from the 1926 yearbook of Barnard College | |
| Born | 1906 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | March 7, 1968 (age 61) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupations | Writer, editor, lecturer |
Roma Rudd Turkel (1906 – March 7, 1968) was an American writer, editor, and lecturer. Her writings as a Catholic convert were published in newspapers across the United States, and in The Family Digest, mostly in during the 1940s and 1950s.
Rudd was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Channing Rudd and Florence Stevens Rudd (later MacFarland).[1][2] Her father was a lawyer, college professor, and bank official.[3] She graduated from Barnard College in 1926.[4] She pursued further studies at Fordham University.[5] "I have a college diploma moldering away in one of the trunks we use for dead storage," she wrote in 1948. "I am not proud of it—nor of the education I received at that distinguished college." She advised Catholic students to avoid non-sectarian higher education.[6]
Career
Turkel was an adult convert to Catholicism,[7] and most of her writing, editing, and public speaking were in Catholic contexts.[8][9] She was editor of the monthly magazine Information,[10] and special projects editor at the Paulist Newman Press.[11] Her book Day After Tomorrow (1956) about planning for old age, was described as "warm, earnest reading".[12] She took particular interest in issues at the intersections of Catholic parenting and public schooling.[13][14] She also translated French Catholic works into English.[15]