William Herrick (novelist)

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William Herrick (Trenton, NJ, January 10, 1915 – Old Chatham, NY, January 31, 2004) was an American novelist, sometimes referred to as "an American Orwell".[1]

Biography[]

Herrick was born to Jewish parents who had come to the United States from Belarus and settled in Trenton, New Jersey.[2] Herrick was among the Abraham Lincoln Brigade[3] which fought Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War. Drawing on that experience he wrote Hermanos! (1969), a novel about the war itself, and another novel set in Spain, Shadows and Wolves (1980), about the post-Franco period. He left the American Communist Party over the Hitler–Stalin non-aggression pact in 1939 and criticised the Brigade as willing accomplices of the Communist secret police, who were killing off anyone who criticized the Party.[4]

Two other novels touch on his experience in Spain: Love and Terror (1981) and Kill Memory (1983). His autobiography is entitled Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical (1998).

Bibliography[]

Fiction[]

  • The Itinerant (1967)
  • Hermanos! (1969)
  • Strayhorn (1973)
  • Golcz: A Novel (1976)
  • Shadows and Wolves (1980)
  • Love and Terror (1981)
  • Kill Memory (1984)
  • That's Life: A Fiction (1985)
  • The Last to Die (1986)
  • Bradovich (1993)

Nonfiction[]

  • Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical (1998) - Autobiography

References[]

  1. ^ Capshaw, Ron (June 1, 2015). "The Man Who Punctured Communism's Lies About the Spanish Civil War". The National Review.
  2. ^ Burns, Jim. "William Herrick and the Spanish Civil War". The Penniless Press. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  3. ^ "William Herrick, 89, Novelist on Espionage". The New York Times. February 9, 2004. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  4. ^ Capshaw, Ron (June 1, 2015). "The Man Who Punctured Communism's Lies About the Spanish Civil War". The National Review.

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