Ann Kirschner is the daughter of Sala Garncarz Kirschner and Sidney Kirschner. She is the author of SALA'S GIFT, the story of her mother's wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps.

She began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton University, where she earned a Ph.D. in English. Her subsequent career as an entrepreneur in media and technology included the creation of internet businesses for the National Football League and Columbia University. A frequent contributor to conferences and publications on higher education and interactive media, Dr. Kirschner is the University Dean of the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York.

Ann Kirschner lives in New York with her husband, Dr. Harold Weinberg, and is the mother of Elisabeth, Caroline, and Peter

Books by Ann Kirschner

Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp

by Ann Kirschner - Biography, Nonfiction

For nearly 50 years, she lived with the most famous lawman of the Old West. Yet Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp has nearly been erased from Western lore. In this definitive biography, Ann Kirschner brings Josephine out of the shadows of history to tell her full story --- a spirited tale of ambition, adventure, self-invention and romance reflective of America itself, from the post–Civil War years to World War II.

Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story

by Ann Kirschner - Memoir, Nonfiction