Louis Begley

Louis Begley

Louis Begley is a novelist and retired lawyer. He has written eight novels, including Wartime Lies, About Schmidt, and Matters of Honor, which was published in 2007. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres of France and served as the president of American pen from 1993 to 1995. He lives in New York with his wife, Anka Muhlstein, an historian of France.

From the Review

September 22, 2005: It Couldn't Happen Here (letter)

June 23, 2005: The Custom of the Country

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

September 23, 2004: Ariadne's Own Story

January 17, 2002: Lonely in Germany

Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink,translated from the Germanby John E. Woods

September 24, 1992: A Matter of Survival

October, Eight O'Clock by Norman Manea, translated by Cornelia Golna, by Anselm Hollo, by Mara Soceanu Vamos, by Max Bleyleben, by Marguerite Dorian, by Elliott B. Urdang

From New York Review Books

Memoirs of Montparnasse 1927. Finding college life "depressing...to a point where [he] could not go on" John "Buffy" Glassco decamped for Paris. Forty years later, he reconstructed this memoir à clef of his rollicking youth among the haute bohemians of the day, including Hemingway, Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Kay Boyle.

The Other House The savage conclusion of The Other House makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James's depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life.

Books by Louis Begley

Schmidt Delivered (2000)
Mistler's Exit (1998)
About Schmidt (1996)
Lugen in Zeiten Des Krieges: Roman (1996)
Skekarim Shel Milhamah (1995)
As Max Saw It (1994)
The Man Who Was Late (1993)
Wartime Lies (1991)