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Recently published …Imagine if a million lives could have been saved in the Holocaust. Or even 100,000. Imagine if an agreement could have been negotiated between the Nazis and the Allies that would have ransomed Jewish lives in danger. We pay to save people from starvation, from cold, from oppression, from environmental or manmade disasters. What would or should we have paid to save those lives?
I am a historian and novelist, the author of ten books. Educated at Berkeley and Harvard where I received my PhD, I taught at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence and Purchase College; was a research fellow and executive director of foundations; reviewed for the Los Angeles Times and journals; and raised sheep for twelve years in Stonington, Connecticut before turning to full-time writing. I live in Providence, RI with my wife, an intellectual property lawyer, and travel frequently in Europe and the Middle East to research my books.
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Selected WorksHistory
Emissary of the Doomed
... eminently readable history ... both an adventure yarn and a profound tragedy made up of hope, suspicion, fear, and confusion; all this against the background of the deportation trains leaving daily for Auschwitz. —István Deák, The New Republic Lawrence and Aaronsohn
Florence chronicles the birth of the modern Middle East by narrating the intersecting lives of two remarkable men.… skillfully blends geopolitical history and cloak-and-dagger tales ... —The New Yorker Blood Libel
These days, when old, outdated anti-Semitic lies are being used in too many circles against the Jewish people, this book is important to all those who feel compelled to denounce them. —Elie Wiesel The Perfect Machine
… a perfect job of science writing for the general public. Over to you, Pulitzer Prize Committee … —Arthur C. Clarke Novels
The Gypsy Man
Only when you read two or three new books a week for five or six years do you realize how truly rare a novel like this is.… —Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times |
