![]() ![]() ![]() Kaufman’s idealistic young teacher protagonist, Sylvia Barrett. Directed by Robert Mulligan, it starred Sandy Dennis as Ms. “Up the Down Staircase” was made into a popular movie of the same name, released in 1967. So fully has the novel entered the collective consciousness that its title is still used as a catchphrase to describe absurd or impossible situations. It has sold more than six million copies and been translated into at least 16 languages. ![]() Her daughter, Thea Goldstine, confirmed the death.įirst published by Prentice Hall, “Up the Down Staircase” spent more than a year on the New York Times best-seller list. Bel Kaufman, a former New York City schoolteacher whose classic first novel, “Up the Down Staircase” - shot through with despair and hopefulness, violence and levity, bureaucratic inanity and a blizzard of official memorandums so mind-bendingly illogical as to seem almost Kafkaesque - was hailed as a stunningly accurate portrait of life in an urban school when it was published in 1965, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. ![]()
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