Louis Begley
Louis Begley
Louis Begleyis a Jewish American novelist. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel, Wartime Lies, and the Schmidt trilogy: About Schmidt, Schmidt Deliveredand Schmidt Steps Back...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 October 1933
CountryUnited States of America
writing events lessons
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.
writing fire long
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
writing confession interest
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.
writing thinking self
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.
book views years
My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.
sex found depiction
I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex.