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Fox Sally Biography

American photographer, art collector and picture editor who worked for Houghton Mifflin and was especially known for her curated collections of historical images of womens lives which she published during the 1980s. She was born to Jewish musician parents who had emigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War. Her family soon moved back to New York City, where they had lived previously, shortly after her birth. She grew up in New York. She married biologist Maurice Sanford Fox in Manhattan in 1955. She was especially interested in illustrations of women at leisure and at work, eventually amassing a collection of thousands. By 1985 she had collected enough images that she was able to publish them in several collected volumes. The first was The Medieval Woman. An Illuminated Book of Days (1985), which eventually sold more than 300,000 copies. Her next book was The Victorian Woman. A Book of Days (1987), followed by Medieval Women. An Illuminated Address Book (1988) and The Sporting Woman. A Book of Days (1989). Sally Fox died on 25 February 2006 at age 76 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less