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William Herrick (Trenton, NJ, January 10, 1915 – Old Chatham, NY, January 31, 2004) was an American novelist, sometimes referred to as "an American Orwell".[1]

Biography

Herrick was born to Jewish parents who had come to the United States from Belarus and settled in Trenton, New Jersey.[2] Herrick was among the Abraham Lincoln Brigade[3] which fought Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War. Drawing on that experience he wrote Hermanos! (1969), a novel about the war itself, and another novel set in Spain, Shadows and Wolves (1980), about the post-Franco period. He left the American Communist Party over the Hitler–Stalin non-aggression pact in 1939 and criticised the Brigade as willing accomplices of the Communist secret police, who were killing off anyone who criticized the Party.[4]

Two other novels touch on his experience in Spain: Love and Terror (1981) and Kill Memory (1983). His autobiography is entitled Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical (1998).

Bibliography

Fiction

• The Itinerant (1967)
• Hermanos! (1969)
• Strayhorn (1973)
• Golcz: A Novel (1976)
• Shadows and Wolves (1980)
• Love and Terror (1981)
• Kill Memory (1984)
• That's Life: A Fiction (1985)
• The Last to Die (1986)
• Bradovich (1993)

Nonfiction

• Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical (1998) - Autobiography

References

External links

• Brief biography of William Herrick at the New York State Writers Institute website.
• William Herrick at Find a Grave

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