[1] Letters discovered after her death are clear evidence of bisexuality or lesbianism. See Elinor Lange's Josephine Herbst: The Story She Could Never Tell (1984).
Father: William Herbst
Mother: Mary Frey
Husband: John Herrmann (author)
University: AB, University of California at Berkeley (1918)
University: Morningside College
University: University of Iowa
University: University of Washington
The New York Post European Correspondent (1930s)
Emergency Committee for Southern Political Prisoners 1930
Author of books:
Nothing Is Sacred (1928, novel)
Money for Love (1929, novel)
Pity Is Not Enough (1933, novel)
The Executioner Waits (1934, novel)
Rope of Gold (1939, novel)
Satan's Sergeants (1941, novel)
Somewhere the Tempest Fell (1947, novel)
New Green World (1954, biography, of John and William Bartram)
AKA Josephine Frey Herbst