ELAINE TODD KOREN<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>Author of Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em><\/h2><\/div>\nLike her heroine in\u00a0<\/span>Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em>, Elaine Todd Koren was a “woman of a certain age” who defied time and bucked convention. A Renaissance woman, she modeled, acted, and studied art with Moses Soyer, and she became an accomplished painter and writer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nA divorced single mother of two, she worked by day in New York City’s inner-city schools, first as a teacher and then as a guidance counselor, and wrote at night. Her mystical stories about the children she met won awards from the Educational Press Association and the International Labor Press Association. Her first book,\u00a0<\/span>Flexible Guidance in the Elementary School<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Prentice Hall), was widely used in colleges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nShe left education to write full time, publishing articles, contributing to anthologies on art and drama, and writing two novels before beginning\u00a0<\/span>Suzanne<\/em>. For over ten years she researched the life of Suzanne Valadon and the people she touched, in both the United States and France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nKoren and her husband moved from New York City to Woodstock, NY, where she continued to write and paint. She bought a house in the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, built in 1910 by the artist Bertha Thompson. Her daughter, Dr. Lori Todd, is carrying on her legacy by researching Thompson’s life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nElaine Koren died peacefully in her bed, next to her husband of 58 years, on October 18, 2020, at the age of 96.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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Author of Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em><\/h2><\/div>\nLike her heroine in\u00a0<\/span>Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em>, Elaine Todd Koren was a “woman of a certain age” who defied time and bucked convention. A Renaissance woman, she modeled, acted, and studied art with Moses Soyer, and she became an accomplished painter and writer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nA divorced single mother of two, she worked by day in New York City’s inner-city schools, first as a teacher and then as a guidance counselor, and wrote at night. Her mystical stories about the children she met won awards from the Educational Press Association and the International Labor Press Association. Her first book,\u00a0<\/span>Flexible Guidance in the Elementary School<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Prentice Hall), was widely used in colleges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nShe left education to write full time, publishing articles, contributing to anthologies on art and drama, and writing two novels before beginning\u00a0<\/span>Suzanne<\/em>. For over ten years she researched the life of Suzanne Valadon and the people she touched, in both the United States and France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nKoren and her husband moved from New York City to Woodstock, NY, where she continued to write and paint. She bought a house in the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, built in 1910 by the artist Bertha Thompson. Her daughter, Dr. Lori Todd, is carrying on her legacy by researching Thompson’s life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nElaine Koren died peacefully in her bed, next to her husband of 58 years, on October 18, 2020, at the age of 96.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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Like her heroine in\u00a0<\/span>Suzanne of Love and Art<\/em>, Elaine Todd Koren was a “woman of a certain age” who defied time and bucked convention. A Renaissance woman, she modeled, acted, and studied art with Moses Soyer, and she became an accomplished painter and writer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A divorced single mother of two, she worked by day in New York City’s inner-city schools, first as a teacher and then as a guidance counselor, and wrote at night. Her mystical stories about the children she met won awards from the Educational Press Association and the International Labor Press Association. Her first book,\u00a0<\/span>Flexible Guidance in the Elementary School<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Prentice Hall), was widely used in colleges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She left education to write full time, publishing articles, contributing to anthologies on art and drama, and writing two novels before beginning\u00a0<\/span>Suzanne<\/em>. For over ten years she researched the life of Suzanne Valadon and the people she touched, in both the United States and France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Koren and her husband moved from New York City to Woodstock, NY, where she continued to write and paint. She bought a house in the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, built in 1910 by the artist Bertha Thompson. Her daughter, Dr. Lori Todd, is carrying on her legacy by researching Thompson’s life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Elaine Koren died peacefully in her bed, next to her husband of 58 years, on October 18, 2020, at the age of 96.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> A Life in Art<\/strong><\/p><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.suzannevaladon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}