The couple lived in Manhattan and had a daughter in 1960. She then entered City College of New York but dropped out in 1954 to marry a schoolmate, Robert Rossner, who later became an English teacher and the author of several crime novels under the pen name Ivan T. Rossner attended public schools, graduating from Taft High School in the Bronx in 1952. She also was encouraged by an uncle, Charles Yale Harrison, author of several well-received books, including a classic novel of World War I, Generals Die in Bed (1930). Even before she could read and write Rossner was dictating poems and stories to her mother and later said that she knew at age five that she would be a writer. The elder of two daughters of Joseph Perelman, a textiles jobber, and Dorothy (Shapiro) Perelman, a public school teacher, Rossner grew up in a comfortably middle-class home in the Bronx and spent nearly all of her life in New York City and its suburbs, the settings for most of her ten novels. 9 August 2005 in New York City), best-selling author who wrote about the perils and pains of women in late-twentieth-century America in such acclaimed novels as Looking for Mr.
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