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Durant was born in Proskurov in Russia to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in New York. Will was a teacher at the school at the time, but resigned his post in order to marry Ariel.
Ariel was nominated as "Woman of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times. Ariel and Will Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization. Ariel and Will were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Gerald FordGerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. born July 14, 1913) (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. renamed after adoption) was the fortieth ( 1973 1974) Vice President and the thirty-eighth ( 1974 1977) President of the United States. He remains the only individual to serve as Pr in 1977.
The Durants' autobiography A Dual Autobiography was published in 1978. BooksEnthsiast.com
Ariel Durant and her husband are buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park CemeteryThe Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, California. It is the resting place of some of the entertainment industry's greatest names, although it was not alwa in Los Angeles, CaliforniaThis article is about the city in California. For other uses of 'Los Angeles' see Los Angeles (disambiguation The City of Los Angeles widely known by its abbreviation L. is a large coastal metropolis in Southern California in the western United States..