Ariel Durant

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Ariel Durant (10 May 1898 - 25 October 1981)

Chaya Kaufman was born in Proskurov (now Khmelnytsky, Ukraine) and moved with her parents in 1901 to the United States.

While a student at Ferrer Modern School in New York, she met her future husband, Will Durant, who was one of her teachers and who resigned in order to marry her. The two were married on rollerskates.

The Durants were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the 10th volume of The Story of Civilization.

Both are buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.