Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.

[3] Her articles and reviews have appeared in many major American publications and include profiles of art historian Meyer Schapiro[4] and musicians Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Bernstein.

[5] Helen Epstein is the author, co-author, translator or editor of ten books of narrative non-fiction including the non-fiction trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma; and Joe Papp: An American Life, the biography of a theater producer .

She translated Heda Kovaly’s Under a Cruel Star, Paul Ornstein’s Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst,[6] and the tribute anthology Archivist on a Bicycle.

[9] She guest lectures extensively at universities, libraries and religious institutions in North America and abroad.