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Konrad Bercovici (1881 – 1961) was a Romanian-American writer.

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Biography

Born in Romania into a Jewish family in 1881, he went to university in Paris, where he met his wife.[1] Together, they moved to the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City. He worked in sweatshops and gave piano lessons.[1] He went on to write works of biography, travel and fiction.[2] He also wrote articles for Harper's.

Naturalist American writer Theodore Dreiser had copies of his work in his library.[3]

Bibliography

  • Crimes of Charity (1917)
  • Dust of New York (1919)
  • Murdo (1923)
  • Around The World In New York (1924)
  • Iliana: Stories of a wandering race (1924)
  • The Marriage Guest (1925)
  • On New Shores (1925)
  • The Volga Boatman (1926)
  • Alexander: A Romantic Biography (1928)
  • The Story of the Gypsies (1928)
  • The Crusades (1929)
  • Between Earth And Sky (1929)
  • Nights Abroad (1929)
  • That Royal Lover (1931)
  • A Romany Chai
  • The Macedonian Gypsy
  • The Exodus (1947)
  • Savage Prodigal (1948)

References

  1. ^ a b Paul Avrich, The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States, AK Press, 2005, p.84 [1]
  2. ^ Paul Avrich, Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, AK Press, 2006, p. 107 [2]
  3. ^ Roark Mulligan, 'Theodore Dreiser's Private Library'

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