Maya Deren Bio
- Maya Deren
- Constellation: Taurus
- Born In: Kiev, Russia [now Uk
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- Profession:Director / Scenarist / / Ac
- Other Names:Eleanora Derenkowsky
- Photos: 15
Maya Deren came to the USA in 1922 as Eleanora Derenkowsky. Together with her father Solomon Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist, and her mother Maria Fidler, an artist, she fled the pogroms organized by the Bolsheviks against the Jews. She studied journalism and political science at the Syracuse University in New York, finishing her BA at the New York University (NYU) in June 1936, and then received her MA in English literature from the Smith College in 1939.In 1943, she made her first film Meshes of t
