Louis Begley
Author of Wartime Lies
About the Author
Louis Begley previous novels are Wartime Lies, The Man Who Was late, As max Saw It, About Schmidt, and Mistler's Exit. He lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Bettina Straus
Series
Works by Louis Begley
The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay (2008) 85 copies, 4 reviews
Jacob the Liar 1 copy
franz kafka 1 copy
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 458 copies, 3 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1933-10-06
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Poland (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Stryj, Polish Republic (now Ukraine)
- Places of residence
- Stryj, Ukraine [formerly Stryj, Poland]
Lwów, Ukraine [formerly Lwów, Poland]
Warsaw, Poland
Cracow, Poland
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA (show all 8)
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Göppingen, Germany - Education
- Harvard College ( [1954])
Harvard Law School ( [1959])
Jan Sobieski Gymnasium, Cracow, Poland
Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York, USA - Occupations
- attorney
writer - Relationships
- Muhlstein, Anka (2nd wife)
Begley, Adam (son) - Organizations
- PEN American Center
Debevoise & Plimpton, New York
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Letters
US Army - Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1995)
- Agent
- Georges Borchardt, Inc.
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Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 29
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 2,250
- Popularity
- #11,400
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 35
- ISBNs
- 205
- Languages
- 7
- Favorited
- 6
Back to The New Life of Hugo Gardner – this was a complete miss for me. A book about a man who is a pompous, abrasive, self-absorbed octogenarian who finds himself newly divorced and unable to comprehend how he could have been left behind. His sexual exploits and dalliances, oh who cares?!
The writing is good, the name-dropping, bragging and everything else was not. Thank you NetGalley and Doubleday for a copy.… (more)