About Mark Helprin:
Mark Helprin grew up in New York City, the Hudson River Valley and in the British West Indies. After receiving degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford. He has served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force.
Helprin has written for the New Yorker for more than 25 years, and his stories and essays on politics and aesthetics also appear in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Criterion, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and many other publications. He has been awarded the National Jewish Book Award and the Prix de Rome from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Dates:
(1947-)
Nationality:
American
Genre(s):
Short stories; Novels; Essays
Recent Work:
Freddy and Fredericka (2005)
Read First:
Soldier of a Great War, 1991
