| Emily Kalichstein Evershed |
Emily Evershed, editor
Published: August 27
Emily Evershed, 86, a District resident and retired editor for the
International Monetary Fund, died of liver failure Aug. 11 at the Hebrew Home
of Greater Washington in Rockville.
The death was confirmed by her nephew David Pearl.
Starting in 1979, Mrs. Evershed spent about 15 years working for the IMF.
She later was a consulting editor for the IMF and the World Bank.
Emily Kalichstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in Washington, where
she graduated in 1943 from Roosevelt High School. She was a 1947 art history
graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio and received a master’s degree in art history
from Columbia University in 1949.
Early in her career, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
and was an editor for the British publishing house Paul Hamlyn, where she
worked on a four-volume history of world art.
She returned to the Washington area in 1966 and spent five years with what
is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History as
editorial director for books on black history, literature and the arts.
From 1971 to 1979, she was an editor with what is now the International
City/County Management Association, a trade group for city and local
government managers.
Her marriage to artist Peter Evershed ended in divorce.
Survivors include a sister.
— Adam Bernstein
Published: August 27
Emily Evershed, 86, a District resident and retired editor for the
International Monetary Fund, died of liver failure Aug. 11 at the Hebrew Home
of Greater Washington in Rockville.
The death was confirmed by her nephew David Pearl.
Starting in 1979, Mrs. Evershed spent about 15 years working for the IMF.
She later was a consulting editor for the IMF and the World Bank.
Emily Kalichstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in Washington, where
she graduated in 1943 from Roosevelt High School. She was a 1947 art history
graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio and received a master’s degree in art history
from Columbia University in 1949.
Early in her career, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
and was an editor for the British publishing house Paul Hamlyn, where she
worked on a four-volume history of world art.
She returned to the Washington area in 1966 and spent five years with what
is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History as
editorial director for books on black history, literature and the arts.
From 1971 to 1979, she was an editor with what is now the International
City/County Management Association, a trade group for city and local
government managers.
Her marriage to artist Peter Evershed ended in divorce.
Survivors include a sister.
— Adam Bernstein
