Louis Begley
Louis Begley · Arts & Literature
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1933, Stryj, Poland (now Ukraine)
Poland · United States
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Louis Begley is an American novelist and lawyer, born Ludwik Begleiter to a Jewish family in Stryj, Poland (now Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust in hiding before becoming a prominent New York attorney and then winning acclaim for novels such as 'Wartime Lies' (1991) and 'About Schmidt'. His fiction often draws on Jewish experience and memory. He is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor.
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