Albert Borowitz

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Albert Borowitz (born June 27, 1930 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American collector, historian and author.

Life

Even his father David Borowitz († 1988), who founded the Bradley Manufacturing Co. lamp factory in 1929 , was a book collector. When Albert was 12 years old, his father bought him the complete Sherlock Holmes edition of Arthur Conan Doyle . Borowitz attended Milton Academy and received his Masters and JD from Harvard University . In 1950 he married the art historian Helen Osterman, with whom he has three children. In 1981 he won the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature . Later he was also nominated for other prizes. From 1983 to 1997 he was a partner in the law firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue .

Works

Actual criminal cases

  • Snows on the Moors ; 1971 (on a triple murder in Manchester in 1963. The Snows were CP Snow and his wife Pamela Hansford Johnson )
  • Innocence and Arsenic: Studies in Crime and Literature ; 1977 (on the case of Carl Jonas Love Almqvist )
  • A Gallery of Sinister Perspectives: Ten Crimes and a Scandal ; 1982
  • The Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case: Dark Mirror to Regency England ; 1987
  • The Woman Who Murdered Black Satin: The Bermondsey Horror ; 1989
  • Unhappy endings ; 2001
  • Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome ; 2005
  • Crimes Gone By: Collected Essays of Albert Borowitz, 1966-2005 ; 2006
  • Lamech , the Second Biblical Killer: A Song with Variations ; 2007
  • Musical Mysteries: From Mozart to John Lennon ; 2010
  • Psychological Kidnapping in Italy: the Case of Aldo Braibanti ; Article in the American Bar Association Journal (October 1971)
  • An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature ; 2002; Crime literature bibliography

Fictions

  • The Jack the Ripper Walking Tour Murder ; 1986
  • This Club Frowns on Murder ; 1990
  • The Beautiful Red Danube (e-published)
  • Death Play (e-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1981 Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature
  2. ^ "David Borowitz, book collector" ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Borowitz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American collector, historian, and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois