Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was the most prolific songwriter of the twentieth century. He composed over twelve hundred songs, including "White Christmas," "Blue Skies," and "Alexander's Ragtime Band." "God Bless America& [... more]
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Len Deighton
Len Deighton is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the classic novels The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, as well as his internationally acclaimed histories of World War II. Born in London, he served in ... [... more]
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Piers Paul Read
Paul Piers Read is the author of numerous, critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including A Patriot in Berlin (1996), Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl (1993), On the Third Day (1989), and A Season in the ... [... more]
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Laurence Bergreen
Laurence Bergreen is the author of four biographies, each considered the definitive work on its subject: Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, Capone: The Man and the Era, As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, and Voyage to Mars: NASA's ... [... more]
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Allan Hall
Allan Hall has been a journalist for thirty-one years. Now based in Berlin, he was formerly the New York correspondent, first for the Sun and later for the Daily Mirror. He co-founded the Big Apple News media agency and has covered ... [... more]
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Zero Over Berlin
Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt 1940. Hitler wants to rain death on London but he doesn't have the aircraft. Classified info about a new long-range plane -- the Japanese "Type Zero" -- intrigues Nazi generals who ask their Far Eastern ally for a few .. [... more]
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Michael Wallner
Michael Wallner is an actor and screenwriter. He divides his time between Berlin and the Black Forest. Michael Wallner's thrilling first novel, set in occupied France during World War II, movingly recounts the impossible love affair between a ... [... more]
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Wilfrid Sheed
With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Big Spender," from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song [... more]
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Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins is the translator of Ingeborg Bachmann's collected poems, Darkness Spoken, as well as author of two books of poems: What She Knew and After Homer. The recipient of a Berlin Prize fellowship in 2005 from the American Academy in ... [... more]
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Matthew Skelton
A: I started writing Endymion Spring while living in a friend's empty flat in Berlin (October 2001). It was a difficult time for me. I knew no one in the city and I couldn't speak the language very well. Fortunately, I had an idea for a ... [... more]
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David Dollenmayer
David Dollenmayer is Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Berlin Novels of Alred Doblin. He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. He lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The ... [... more]
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Tod Wodicka
Tod Wodicka was born in Glens Falls, New York, and was educated at Manchester University in Great Britain. He lives in Berlin. All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well Meet Burt Hecker: he's a mead-addicted ... [... more]
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