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Gerda Rhoads
A Vienna-born writer who also worked as a ballet dancer and painter, she brought an unusual mix of artistic experience to her fiction. Her published work is little known today, which gives it the feel of a hidden mid-century discovery.
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My past is mine
by Gerda Rhoads
About the author
Born in Vienna, Gerda Rhoads later came to the United States with her parents by way of London and Rio. She was educated at Hunter College before first pursuing ballet and painting.
Her early life moved through several art worlds: she danced professionally, created paintings, and then married a painter. After moving to Paris, she turned to writing.
Rhoads is remembered in surviving author notes as the writer of My Past Is Mine, a mid-20th-century science fiction story. The small amount of available biographical information gives her the air of a talented, cross-disciplinary artist whose writing emerged from a rich creative background.