April 22, 1923

Paula Fox (April 22,1923), the writer, was born in New York City. She married Martin Greenberg, a poet and the translator of many classics of German literature. We have this excerpt from her 1984 book, A Servant’s Tale:

A little cat, mewing, its fur dull and patchy, came out from beneath a rhododendron bush and began to follow us. ... He looked thin and shanky, holding the cat... I was suddenly aware of his singularity, his self that was not my self.

Paula was the daughter of Paul Hervey Fox, a writer; the novels The antagonists (1937 ) and The daughter of Jairus (1951) are just two of his books. Her parents did not raise her, though, for reasons which are not clear to me. She had a loving, learning, home however. In 1944 Linda herself had a daughter, who was given up for adoption. This daughter, Linda Carroll, would grow up and become the mother of of someone who went into rock 'n roll -- Courtney Love.

Paula Fox and Martin Greenberg have two sons.

Paula Fox has two volumes of memoirs out:
Borrowed Finery (2001 ) and The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe (2005 ).