Joseph S. Iseman

Joseph S. Iseman (May 29, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an attorney and educator known for his work with National Television, Children's Television Workshop, also known as Sesame Workshop, and Bennington College (where he stepped in as acting president in 1976), as well as the American University of Paris, where he served for a time as the vice chair. As a lawyer at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Iseman notably managed the estates of composer Cole Porter, writer Vladimir Nabokov, writer Jean Stafford, poet Robert Lowell, writer A. J. Liebling, artist Robert Motherwell, writer and historian Theodore H. White, Saturday Review and its editor Norman Cousins, and playwright Arthur Miller. He was also the father of New York City businessman Frederick Iseman.

Education

Iseman attended the Ethical Culture School in New York, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut.

Death

Iseman died at the age of 89. According to his family, the cause of death was cardiac arrest.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Saxon (May 1, 2006). "Joseph S. Iseman, 89, Lawyer and Educator, Dies". The New York Times.

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