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About the author:
Frederic Prokosch (1906-1989) was a novelist, poet, literary critic, and translator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, to an immigrant family of intellectuals, Prokosch graduated from Haverford College in 1925 and received a Ph.D. in English in 1932 from Yale University. During World War II, he served as cultural attache of the American Legation in Stockholm. Prokosch's first novel, The Asiatics, was published to great acclaim in 1935. It was reissued in 1983 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which simultaneously published his last book, Voices, a memoir that was praised for its portraits of some of the most outstanding twentieth-century authors and artists. In addition to translations from the Greek and German, Prokosch's other novels include The Seven Who Fled (winner of the Harper Prize, 1937), The Idols of the Cave (1946), The Missolonghi Manuscript (1968), The Wreck of the Cassandra (1966), The Dark Dancer (1964), The Seven Sisters (1962) and A Ballad of Love (1960).
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9781632924070
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 376
- Utgivningsdatum: 2024-02-15
- Förlag: Modern Times Publishing