Lucy Cores, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLucy Cores
American writer
Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1912
Date of Death: 06-Aug-2003
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Lucy Cores
- Lucy Michaella Cores Kortchmar (January 14, 1912 – August 6, 2003) was a Russian-American novelist. Born in Moscow, Cores was the daughter of violist Michael Cores and the niece of violinist Alexander Cores.
- Her family fled the Russian Revolution and arrived in the United States in 1921.
- She attended the Ethical Culture School and Barnard College.In 1942, she married Emil Kortchmar, a screw machine parts manufacturer.
- They had two children, Michael and Daniel.
- Danny Kortchmar is now a professional guitarist. Cores wrote two mystery novels, Painted for the Kill (1943) and Corpse de Ballet (1944), featuring female protagonist Toni Ney, a former ballet dancer.
- The second book was dedicated to Cores' friend Olga Ley, the wife of science fiction writer Willy Ley, herself a former ballet dancer and possibly the inspiration for Ney.
- Cores also wrote the mystery Let's Kill George (1946).Cores wrote a number of romance and historical novels.
- Woman in Love (1951) was based on her own experiences.
- The Mermaid Summer (1971) was set on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where she moved in 1957.
- The Year of December (1974) was about Claire Clairmont's time in Russia.
- Destiny's Passion (1978) and Fatal Passion (1989) were historical novels set during the British Regency.
- A story she published in the Saturday Evening Post about a magazine editor raising seven children was the basis for the television show The New Loretta Young Show.Cores also wrote science fiction.
- Her story "Deborah and the Djinn" appeared in the September 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe.
- Lucy Cores also contributed a story to Beyond Time (1976), an alternate history anthology edited by Willy and Olga Ley's daughter Sandra.
- The story, "Hail to the Chief", features a President Richard Nixon unhindered by Watergate who remains in office until 1994.At the time of her death, at age 91, Cores was writing a novel about Alexander Pushkin.
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