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Jere True<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Co-Author Jere True. Photo by Marcia Ward<\/p><\/div>\n

(1919-1999), eldest daughter of Allen Tupper True, began her writing career as a reporter for the Denver Post<\/em> and drama and music critic and feature writer for Empire Magazine<\/em>, the Post<\/em>\u2019s longtime Sunday magazine. She then was a stringer for the New York Daily News<\/em> and a correspondent for the International News Service, covering the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Later in life, she wrote a column for the Healdsburg Tribune<\/em> in California and a biography of Nina Lektorsky, a Russian opera singer. Jere True served as Aspen, Colorado\u2019s publicity director in 1949-1950, mounting the first Goethe Festival and handling publicity for the restoration of the Opera House and the 1950 Federation International de Ski. She was vice president of the public relations firm Charles von Loewenfeldt & J.T. True Inc. in San Francisco, California, in the 1950s. Her firm handled the affairs of several well-known Japanese clients, including Japan Air Lines and the Consul General of Japan. Jere True graduated from Rosemary Hall, attended Bryn Mawr, the University of Florence in Italy, and the University of Innsbruck in Austria. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\"Co-author<\/a>

Co-author Victoria Tupper Kirby. Photo by Lois Tema<\/p><\/div>\n

Victoria Tupper Kirby<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(born 1940), Allen True\u2019s granddaughter and Jere True\u2019s daughter, worked as a public relations consultant for more than twenty-five years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kirby was a theater critic, photographer, and translator for The Drama Review <\/em>in the 1970s, and translated manifestos and plays for Futurist Performance<\/em> by Michael S. Kirby, originally published by E. P. Dutton in 1971, and reprinted by Performing Arts Journal Publications in l987. She also has written numerous articles published in the United States and Europe. In addition, Kirby has been a theater producer, a professional singer, and performance artist. She is an exhibited painter and printmaker and her artwork is in private collections in the U.S., Mexico, Australia, and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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