Goodman, Celia (Mary) 1916-2002
GOODMAN, Celia (Mary) 1916-2002
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born September 7, 1916, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England; died October 19, 2002, in Cambridge, England. Editor and author. Goodman was a society intellectual perhaps best known for her friendships with authors George Orwell and Arthur Koestler. Educated at home and at boarding schools in England and Switzerland, she became fluent in several languages and developed a love for music (she was a talented pianist) and literature (especially German, French, and English). During World War II she worked as a nurse and afterwards became involved with magazines. She was employed as an assistant editor for the multilingual philosophical journal Polemic and the arts and literature magazine Occident in the mid-1940s. She then worked as a foreign office researcher for two years before joining the staff of the magazine History Today in 1951. Goodman became close friends with Arthur Koestler through her friendship with George Orwell, whose proposal of marriage she once rejected. Goodman's twin sister, Mamaine, married Koestler, and years later Goodman edited a collection of her sister's letters, Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters, 1945-1951 (1985).
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Guardian (London, England), November 6, 2002, p. 20.
Independent (London, England), October 25, 2002, p. 22.
Times (London, England), October 29, 2002, p. 33.