Biography
Sterling was born and grew up in New York City, where she went to the . She attended Wellesley College and graduated from Barnard College in 1934. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York for several years, including work for the Federal Writers’ Project.
In 1937 she married Philip Sterling (died 1989), also a writer. Her daughter, Anne Fausto-Sterling, is a noted sexologist, the the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, and is married to playwright Paula Vogel.
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