Audrey Kupferberg

Bio

Audrey Kupferberg grew up in Amsterdam, New York. She is a writer/biographer, lecturer, film and video consultant, archivist, and appraiser. She teaches film history at the University at Albany (SUNY), and works as film consultant to The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College. She has lectured on Irving Berlin in the Speakers in the Humanities Program, New York Council for the Humanities, and lectured or moderated panels at such venues as the Donnell Media Center (New York Public Library), Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, SUNY at Stonybrook, International Al Jolson Society, and Lucy-Desi Museum (Jamestown, New York). She has been Director of the Yale Film Study Center, Assistant Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute, and Project Director of the American Film Institute Catalog. She is a contributing editor of Leonard Maltin’s Family Film Guide, and has written for Women Filmmakers and Their Films, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. With her husband, Rob Edelman, she is the author of Angela Lansbury: A Life On Stage And Screen (Birch Lane) and Meet The Mertzes (Renaissance), a dual biography of Vivian Vance and William Frawley.