![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author wrote four standalone novels from nineteen-seventy-six to nineteen-eighty-eight which were all met with little to no success. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and completed his education with the master’s degree he received from Penn State in nineteen-sixty-seven. He grew up in a culturally rich environment as his family has ancestral ties to Russia, Latvia, and Poland. He was born in nineteen-forty-one in New York City and grew up in Manhattan, the Upper West Side to be specific. He likes to work with different settings and characters as an author and this is made clear by none of his works -with two exceptions which I will share with you in a little bit- sharing a common plot. His work usually takes place before or during the Second World War and he is praised for his accurate representation of the world in that time period, notably Eastern Europe. Besides writing novels, he also worked as a copywriter and magazine writer as well as a columnist before his debut. He has also stated the names of the household names Arthur Koestler and Joseph Roth as major sources of inspiration for his works. Said to be the heir to the legacy of iconic names like Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, Alan Furst is a United States-born Jewish writer who has mainly focused on historical spy novels. ![]()
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