Brain Guy / Plunder - Couverture souple

Appel, Benjamin

 
9781933586014: Brain Guy / Plunder

Synopsis

Two novels that earmark the varied career of Benjamin Appel. Brain Guy is the story of a young gangster on the rise in Hell's Kitchen, where the author grew up. It was his first novel. Plunder is set in post-WWII Manila and is the story of two GI hustlers set loose on the Philippines. Appel also wrote science fiction, adventure, general fiction and a wide array of non-fiction.

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À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin Appel was born in 1907 in New York City and grew up in Hell’s Kitchen. He began writing short stories and was published in both literary and slick magazines. Brain Guy was his first novel, followed by fifteen others. In 1945 and 1946 he was sent as historian/journalist with the McNutt Mission to the Philippines. Returning to the States, he moved to Roosevelt, New Jersey, a New Deal resettlement town, where he lived with his wife and three daughters and wrote both fiction and nonfiction until he died in 1977.

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