Author Biographies

Below are several author biographies to introduce you to writers, the lives they lived, and the works they created. We have concentrated on modern writers and lesser-known authors as there is far less about them online but they are often just as deserving of study as those within popular cannons.

March 13, 2013

Julius “Jay” Wachtel: History, Fiction, and Something In between

Julius (“Jay”) Wachtel was born in Italy. Two weeks later he and his parents, both Holocaust survivors, moved to Buenos Aires. A decade later the family emigrated to the US and settled in Los Angeles. The fact that his mother had been liberated by Soviet troops led Jay to develop an interest in Russian history […]

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