![]() Largely epistolary in structure, “Up the Down Staircase” is organized as a series of dispatches from the front as it follows Sylvia through her first year at Calvin Coolidge High, a fictitious yet all-too-real New York public school. Kaufman wrote one other novel, “Love, Etc.,” about a middle-aged woman coping with divorce. She was also a highly visible public presence at events commemorating the work of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, her maternal grandfather. The book and movie made Kaufman a celebrity for decades afterward, she was in demand as a speaker before educational and civic groups. Directed by Robert Mulligan, it starred Sandy Dennis as Kaufman's idealistic young teacher, Sylvia Barrett. ![]() ![]() “Up the Down Staircase” was made into a popular movie of the same name, released in 1967. ![]()
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