Harriet Mattusch's world stretches from South Dakota to New York to
Germany, and on to Korea, India, Italy, France, Austria, and
eastern Europe. Her life-story spans the twentieth century, and it
is written in a conversational tone by a careful listener and an
avid learner. She writes with wit, intellect, and the spirit of
discovery. Born in South Dakota in 1913, Harriet studied modern
dance in New York city, as well as theater, political science, and
English literature. She was in Berlin in 1933, the year that Hitler
came to power. Returning to the U.S., she got a job at Briarcliff
College in New York. She married Kurt Robert Mattusch in 1942, who
was born near Magdeburg and had been a founder of the German
democratic youth movement, advising his groups in 1933 to leave
Germany rather than join the Hitler Youth, and leaving himself in
1937. After the war, Harriet and Robert moved to Berlin, where he
worked for the U.S. Civil Administration and she for Occupation
Services. Returning to the U.S. in 1948, they renovated a house in
Waterford before moving to a farm in Clifton, VA. They lived in
Seoul, Korea, from 1959 to 1965, where Harriet wrote three books
about Korea and its monuments. During the later 1960s and the
1970s, from their home-base in Clifton they traveled to India, Sri
Lanka, and Nepal, to Eastern Europe and the Balkans; for a time
they lived in France and in Austria. Harriet wrote about their
experiences and about the people they met along the way. Harriet
Cressey Mattusch's interests ranged from third-millennium-B.C.
Korea to twentieth-century Berlin, from prehistoric man to Anthony
Trollope, from classical archaeology to international politics. In
addition to her fascination with current events, exploration,
travel, archaeology, and dance, Harriet tracked human nature around
the world and throughout the twentieth century. This book holds
something of interest for anyone who was Alive in the Twentieth
Century or who wonders what life could have been like in the
twentieth century.
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