Harriet Rohmer

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Harriet Rohmer (born 1938) is an American author, editor and publisher who won an American Book Award and founded Children's Book Press. [1] [2] She worked for UNESCO in Paris on Third World cultural programs. [3] Her work appears in Passages North, the Louisville Review , the Jewish Women's Literary Annual and Zeek . [4]

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