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Ariel Durant
American historian
Ariel Durant (; May 10, – October 25, )[1] was a Ukrainian-born American researcher and writer.
Will durant biography
She was the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband, Will Durant. They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Biography
Ariel Durant was born Chaya Kaufman in Proskurov, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), to Jewish parents Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman.
Ariel later went by Ida.[2] The family emigrated in , living for several months in London –01 en route to the United States, where they arrived in She had three older sisters, Sarah, Mary, and Flora, and three older brothers, Harry, Maurice, and Michael.[2] Flora became Ariel's companion and sometime assistant, and moved with the Durants to California.
She met her future husband when she was a student at Ferrer Modern School in New York City. He was then a teacher at the school, but resigned his post to marry A