Helen Epstein is the author, co-author, translator or editor of ten books of narrative non-fiction including the non-fiction trilogy Children of the Holocaust,Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma; and Joe Papp: An American Life, the biography of a theater producer . She translated Heda Kovaly’s Under a Cruel Star,Paul Ornstein’s Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst,[6] and the tribute anthology Archivist on a Bicycle[7].The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma was published in English and Czech in 2018.[8] In 2020, she published her late mother's memoir as Franci's War and in 2022, her cancer memoir Getting Through It.
She was the first tenured woman journalism professor in New York University (1981) and taught about 1000 students over 12 years.[9] She guest lectures extensively at universities, libraries and religious institutions in North America and abroad.[10]
Works
Children of the Holocaust. Penguin Books. ISBN0140112847