Moving Tales: My Journey From Victim to Victor

About the Book

Shirley Primack Azen, born in Montreal, Canada, in 1913, of immigrant parents, endured insecurity, poverty, and the death of her mother and beloved stepmother by the time she was eleven years old. She suffered emotional abuse by her father's third wife and by her alcoholic husband with the result that agoraphobia took over. Shirley fought hard to free herself from its restrictive hold. She held a fine job at the University of California, Los Angeles and she raised a successful son and daughter. She achieved her academic dream when she was awarded her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, at the age of seventy-eight.

About the Author

Shirley Primack Azen, born in Montreal, Canada, in 1913, of immigrant parents, endured insecurity, poverty, and the death of her mother and beloved stepmother by the time she was eleven years old. She suffered emotional abuse by her father's third wife and by her alcoholic husband with the result that agoraphobia took over. Shirley fought hard to free herself from its restrictive hold. She held a fine job at the University of California, Los Angeles and she raised a successful son and daughter. She achieved her academic dream when she was awarded her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, at the age of seventy-eight.