TY - SER KW - German Americans KW - ministers KW - college students KW - artists KW - Mennonites KW - steel industry KW - Protestants KW - Jewish Americans KW - professors AU - Gladys Schmitt AB - Carl Hasselmann, a sociology professor, and his sister Ellie, a talented painter torn between two unstable lovers, are two hypersensitive, middle-class German Americans who constantly wrestle with existential questions. C1 - 1930s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Squirrel Hill; Shadyside; Oakland; University of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Museum; Fayette County; Connellsville C4 - Literary; Psychological CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Won the Dial Press Award. N2 - Carl Hasselmann, a sociology professor, and his sister Ellie, a talented painter torn between two unstable lovers, are two hypersensitive, middle-class German Americans who constantly wrestle with existential questions. PB - Dial Press PP - New York PY - 1942 RN - Gladys Schmitt (1909-72), born in Pittsburgh, graduated from Schenley High School. She attended Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) on a scholarship but transferred to the University of Pittsburgh, from which she graduated in 1932, then took a job in New York with Scholastic Publishing. She returned to Pittsburgh in 1942 and began a 30-year teaching career in the English department of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), where she founded the creative writing program. She published nine novels, many of them selections of the Literary Guild, including her million seller David the King (1946). She married the composer Simon Goldfield, her high school boyfriend. She is buried in Pittsburgh and her name is memorialized in Carnegie Mellon's Gladys Schmitt Creative Writing Center. EP - 652 p. TI - The Gates of Aulis ER -