Alan Furst

Novelist, Author

1941 –

36

Who is Alan Furst?

Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern Europe peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.

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Born
Feb 20, 1941
New York City
Religion
  • Judaism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Oberlin College
  • Horace Mann School
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Bachelor of Arts
Lived in
  • Manhattan

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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