Ariel Durant

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ariel Durant
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	May 10, 1898(1898-05-10)
Age	126
Date Of Death	1981-10-25
Birthplace	Khmelnytskyi
Country	Ukraine
Birth City	Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Horoscope	Taurus

Ariel Durant Biography

Ariel Durant is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 10, 1898 in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. Russian-American historian who wrote the multi-volume work The Story of Civilization. The tenth volume of the work, Rousseau and Revolution, received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Her husband and she were presented with an award in the year 1977, the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President She and her husband were awarded the 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Gerald R. Ford..

The couple met their partner along with Story of Civilization co-author, She met her husband and Story of Civilization co-author, Will Durant, while he was teaching and she was studying at New York’s Ferrer Modern School. The couple married when Ariel Durant was only fifteen years old., when he was teaching, and she was at the New York’s Ferrer Modern School. The couple got married at the age of Ariel Durant was only fifteen years old.

Ariel Durant Net Worth

Ariel Durant is one of the richest Novelist from Ukraine. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ariel Durant 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was born into an ethnically Jewish family from the Russian Empire (in what is the present-day Ukraine). Durant was later referred to by the name Chaya Kaufman – emigrated into the United States at the age of three.

In 1978 her together with her husband, published an autobiography written by the couple.

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Who is Ariel Durant Dating?

According to our records, Ariel Durant married to Will Durant. As of December 1, 2023, Ariel Durant’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Ariel Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ukraine. Ariel Durant celebrates birthday on May 10 of every year.

Was Will Durant a socialist?

I was a Socialist in my youth and sympathized with the Soviet regime until I visited Russia in 1932. What I saw there led me to deprecate the extension of that system to any other land. Experience and history have taught me the instinctive basis and economic necessity of competition and private property.

Who are Will and Ariel Durant?

Will Durant was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Pulitzer Prize; he was both a faculty member and a student at Seton Hall. The author of 53 books during his lifetime, Durant is best known for The Story of Philosophy and the 11 volume set, The Story of Civilization, which he produced with his wife, Ariel.

Will and Ariel Durant history?

The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, with a particular emphasis on European (Western) history. The series was written over a span of four decades.

How long does it take to read the story of civilization?

The average reader will spend 162 hours and 46 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).

Will Durant about meaning of life?

In his book On the Meaning of Life (1932) Will Durant argued that we cannot answer the question of the meaning of life in any absolute sense, for our minds are too small to comprehend things in their entirety.