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Helen Elizabeth “Anderson” Simons

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Helen Elizabeth “Anderson” Simons

Birth
San Francisco County, California, USA
Death
14 Mar 1992 (aged 83)
Wailuku, Maui County, Hawaii, USA
Burial
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Helen Elizabeth Simons was born on September 5, 1908, in San Francisco, California, to Claude and Selma (Anderson) Simons.

While quite young, Helen married actor and stuntman John Whitney Robinson, son of the artist Boardman Robinson. However, the marriage didn't last.

Writing under the pseudonym Helen Anderson, she wrote a novel, Pity for Women, published by Doubleday, Doran & Company in 1937. It was around this time that she remarried, then to the poet and author Walker Winslow; Helen also befriended the poet Joan Murray (who claimed her as an influence) as well as the poet and artist Weldon Kees. Her marriage to Winslow dissolved.

Later in her life, sometime during the 40s, she married the psychiatrist and artist, Dr. David Sherbon, however divorcing soon after the end of the Korean War; then to Paul “King of Big Screen” Goldenberg in 1954; then again in 1971 Helen married Valdon Osborne Chaney in her home town.

She died on March 14, 1992, in Maui, Hawaii, at the age of 83.
Helen Elizabeth Simons was born on September 5, 1908, in San Francisco, California, to Claude and Selma (Anderson) Simons.

While quite young, Helen married actor and stuntman John Whitney Robinson, son of the artist Boardman Robinson. However, the marriage didn't last.

Writing under the pseudonym Helen Anderson, she wrote a novel, Pity for Women, published by Doubleday, Doran & Company in 1937. It was around this time that she remarried, then to the poet and author Walker Winslow; Helen also befriended the poet Joan Murray (who claimed her as an influence) as well as the poet and artist Weldon Kees. Her marriage to Winslow dissolved.

Later in her life, sometime during the 40s, she married the psychiatrist and artist, Dr. David Sherbon, however divorcing soon after the end of the Korean War; then to Paul “King of Big Screen” Goldenberg in 1954; then again in 1971 Helen married Valdon Osborne Chaney in her home town.

She died on March 14, 1992, in Maui, Hawaii, at the age of 83.


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