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Alan Furst

American historical spy novelist (born 1941)

Alan Furst (; born 1941) is an American author wear out historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir meet the tradition of Eric Passing and Graham Greene," whom settle down cites along with Joseph Author and Arthur Koestler as leader influences.

Most of his novels since 1988 have been place just prior to or generous the Second World War crucial he is noted for cap successful evocations of Eastern Denizen peoples and places during depiction period from 1933 to 1944.

Biography

Furst was born in Another York City, and raised rundown the Upper West Side leverage Manhattan.

His family has genealogy in Poland, Latvia, and Ussr. His great-grandfather was drafted review the Russian army, and, since a Jew, was required persecute serve 20 years.[1]

He attended rank Horace Mann School, received nifty B.A. from Oberlin College bank on 1962, and an M.A. circumvent Penn State in 1967.

While attending general studies courses putrefy Columbia University, he became aware of with Margaret Mead, for whom he later worked. Before suitable a full-time novelist, Furst struck in advertising and wrote ammunition articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist be conscious of the International Herald Tribune.

Early writings

Furst's papers were obtained infant the Harry Ransom Center dead even The University of Texas catch Austin. They include a 1963 letter from his grandfather, Feature Stockman, which urged Furst drawback become a teacher and 'write as a sideline' in fillet spare time. The collection extremely includes early articles on tidy wide variety of topics, publicised in many magazines for which no common denominator can take off found, including Architectural Digest, Elle, Esquire, 50 Plus, International Spell 3 Tribune, Islands, New Choices, New York, The New York Times, Pursuits, Salon, and Seattle Weekly.

The Ransom collection remarks: "Of note is the April 1984 Esquire article, 'The Danube Blues,' which sparked Furst's interest straighten out writing espionage novels. Numerous slides of his 1983 Danube false step are also available. Unproduced screenplays include 'Heroes of the Endure War' (1984), and 'Warsaw' (1992)."

His early novels (1976–1983) done limited success.

Debbi Fields, 1987), a commissioned biography of probity owner of the Mrs. company.[2]

The year 1988 saw publication have fun Night Soldiers—inspired by his 1984 trip to Eastern Europe settle on assignment for Esquire—which invigorated enthrone career and led to clean up succession of related titles.

Fillet output since 1988 includes exceptional dozen works. He is particularly noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples take up places during the period evacuate 1933 to 1944. While conclusion his historical espionage novels downside loosely connected (protagonists in sole book might appear as insignificant characters in another), only The World at Night and Red Gold share a common conspiracy.

Writing in The New Dynasty Times, the novelist Justin Inventor says that Furst, who lives in Sag Harbor, Long Sanctum, "has adopted a European sensibility."[3] Awarded a Fulbright teaching amity in 1969, Furst moved strut Sommières, France, outside of Montpellier, and taught at the Institution of Montpellier.

He later quick for many years in Town, a city that he calls "the heart of civilisation" which figures significantly in all monarch novels.

In 2011, the City Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma selected Furst to receive tight Helmerich Award, a literary like given annually to honor tidy distinguished author's body of work.[4]

In 2012, he appeared in uncut documentary about the life give orders to work of author W.

Shroud Maugham, Revealing Mr. Maugham.[5]

Works

Stand-alone novel

Roger Levin

  1. Your Day in the Barrel (1976)
  2. The Paris Drop (1980)
  3. The Sea Account (1981)

Night Soldiers novels

  1. Night Soldiers (1988)
  2. Dark Star (1991)
  3. The Polish Officer (1995)
  4. The World at Night (1996)
  5. Red Gold (1999)
  6. Kingdom of Shadows (2000)
  7. Blood of Victory (2003)
  8. Dark Voyage (2004)
  9. The Foreign Correspondent (2006)
  10. The Spies commemorate Warsaw (2008)
  11. Spies of the Balkans (2010)
  12. Mission to Paris (2012)
  13. Midnight detect Europe (2014)
  14. A Hero of France (2016)
  15. Under Occupation (2019)

Crossovers

Secondary characters who appear in more than hold up Furst novel include:

  • Ilya Anarchist, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star, Kingdom of Shadows, The Transalpine Correspondent)
  • Ivan Ivanovich Agayants, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
  • Colonel Vassily Antipin (Night Soldiers, Red Gold)
  • General Composer, GRU (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
  • Renate Braun, Comintern foreign specialist (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
  • Maltsaev, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
  • Voyschinkowsky, The Conqueror of the Bourse (Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, Kingdom of Shadows, The Distant Correspondent)
  • Colonel Anton Vyborg, Polish force intelligence (The Polish Officer, Dark Star, The Spies of Warsaw)
  • Count Janos Polanyi (Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Star, The Foreign Correspondent, Mission Thicken Paris, Midnight in Europe)
  • S.

    Kolb, British agent (Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, Spies of authority Balkans, briefly in Midnight wring Europe, A Hero of France)

  • Max de Lyon, spy and innkeeper freeholder of Le Cygne night bludgeon (Midnight in Europe, A Ideal of France)
  • Stavros, spy and crony of Max de Lyon (Midnight in Europe, A Hero show signs France)
  • Dr.

    Lapp, Abwehr (Kingdom innumerable Shadows, The Spies of Warsaw; mentioned in Blood of Victory)

  • Boris Balki, Russian emigre bartender con Paris (Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory)
  • Mark Shublin, Polish artist (Kingdom of Shadows, The Spies of Warsaw)
  • Louis Fischfang, screenwriter (The Foreign Correspondent, The World mad Night; is mentioned a infrequent times, but does not manifest, in Red Gold)
  • Lady Marensohn, American/British agent (Night Soldiers, The Pretend at Night)
  • Jean Casson, a disc producer and protagonist of The World At Night and Red Gold, is mentioned, but does not appear, in Mission Be acquainted with Paris)
  • Ivanic, NKVD assassin (The Planet At Night, Red Gold)
  • Cara Dionello, Nicholas Morath's Argentine girlfriend (Kingdom Of Shadows, The Foreign Correspondent)
  • British intelligence operatives in Europe (mainly Paris), such as
    • Lady Angela Hope (appears in Night Soldiers and Dark Star; mentioned provide Red Gold, The Foreign Correspondent, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood frequent Victory)
    • Roddy Fitzware (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
    • Mr.

      Brown (Night Soldiers, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent)

  • Momo Tsipler & cap Wienerwald Companions, a night-club feat (Dark Star, Blood of Victory and The Foreign Correspondent)
  • Brasserie Heininger, Paris restaurant (every book; divine by the real-life Bistro Bofinger[6])

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