Louis Begley

1933 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Harvard Law School, Erasmus Hall High School, Harvard College

occupation: lawyer, novelist, journalist, writer, screenwriter, poet lawyer

award received: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Prix Médicis étranger

official website: www.louisbegley.com

Louis Begley (born Ludwik Begleiter; October 6, 1933) is a Polish-American novelist. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel Wartime Lies (1991) and the Schmidt trilogy: About Schmidt (1996), Schmidt Delivered (2000) and Schmidt Steps Back (2012). Source: Wikipedia (en)