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Writer spins thrillers from his own undercover adventures

Sandee Brawarsky November 16, 2006

Jet lag launched Haggai Carmon into his career as an author. The international lawyer found himself in a small, unheated hotel room in a remote country he won\’t identify. He was on U.S. government assignment, collecting intelligence on a violent criminal organization, but his security cover had been blown, and he was advised by Interpol not to leave his hotel room.Tired, but too scared to sleep, Carmon sat at a child-sized desk with his laptop computer and spun 100 pages of a thriller based on, but disguising, his experiences. Those first 100 pages became the basis for \”Triple Identity,\” the first in a series of three thrillers featuring Dan Gordon, a lawyer and former Mossad agent working for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Israeli author Grossman exhorts Olmert to follow Rabin’s example

Jacob Berkman November 9, 2006

He has long been known abroad as an Israeli novelist. But this weekend, David Grossman put fiction aside to become the voice of an Israel that is bruised, confused and yearning to see the horizon beyond the perennial war clouds.

Hungarian Novelist Takes Manhattan

Sandee Brawarsky December 9, 2004

When Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002, few Americans had read the work of the Hungarian novelist, the first survivor of the concentration camps to be awarded the literary prize. Even in his own country, his works were not well known; his subject, largely the Holocaust, was not popular.

Leon Uris, Author of ‘Exodus,’ Dies at 78

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt June 26, 2003

Leon Uris, the novelist and screenwriter whose best-known works are \”Exodus,\” a popular novel about Jews trying to establish modern Israel, and \”Gunfight at the O.K. Corral,\” perhaps the archetypal Hollywood Western, died June 21 at his home on Shelter Island, N.Y. He was 78.

‘Image’ Is Everything

Naomi Pfefferman February 13, 2003

Dara Horn wrote an exuberant scene in her stunning debut novel, \”In the Image,\” upon returning to her dreary garret flat during a year abroad in 1999. \”I\’d been to this dismal British market in which an entire aisle was devoted to butter and fats,\” the ebullient Horn, 25, said animatedly. \”I recall a product called \’beef drippings.\’ The produce was wilting. All the milk was expired yesterday.Â I was very homesick.\”

His Name Was Chaim Potok

Peter Ephross July 25, 2002

Chaim Potok was a novelist who paved the way for a younger generation of religious American Jewish writers — and a Jewish scholar who worked tirelessly to bring Jews and Judaism closer together.

Reflections on Joseph Heller

Sanford Pinsker December 16, 1999

When you write a book-length study of a living author lots of things can happen; most of them are bad.
\”You\’ve missed a nuance here, a shading there,\” some will point out, in the iciest language possible, while others go straight to the jugular and angrily insist that you don\’t know beans about their work.

Joseph Heller, who passed away Dec. 13 at the age of 76, was a wonderful exception.

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Writer spins thrillers from his own undercover adventures

Israeli author Grossman exhorts Olmert to follow Rabin’s example

Hungarian Novelist Takes Manhattan

Leon Uris, Author of ‘Exodus,’ Dies at 78

‘Image’ Is Everything

His Name Was Chaim Potok

Reflections on Joseph Heller

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