Zelda Popkin (née Feinberg; 5 July 1898 – 25 May 1983) was an American writer of novels and mystery stories.
She created Mary Carner, one of the first professional female private detectives in fiction.
Popkin's most successful book was The Journey Home, published in 1945, which sold nearly a million copies.
[citation needed] Small Victory, published in 1947, was one of the first American novels with a Holocaust theme, and Quiet Street (1951) was the first American novel about the creation of the state of Israel.
[citation needed] Herman Had Two Daughters (1968), a novel about two young Jewish women growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, is also largely autobiographical.