Arthur Herzog

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Arthur Duke III (born April 6, 1927 in New York City ; died May 26, 2010 in Southampton , New York ) was an American writer and journalist best known for his science fiction and true crime books.

Life

Duke was in Manhattan born to Arthur Herzog Jr. and Elizabeth Herzog, born Dayton. His father was a songwriter who also wrote some lyrics for Billie Holiday and Irene Kitchings . Herzog studied English at Stanford University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1950 , and at Columbia University , where he completed his master's degree in 1956 . He worked from 1954 to 1957 for Fawcett Publications in Greenwich , Connecticut . Since 1957 he has been a freelance writer.

His best-known book is the science fiction novel The Swarm (German as Die Körderbienen ) in which a form of mutated, aggressive bees attacks New York. 1978 The Swarm of Irwin Allen as The Swarm filmed, with Michael Caine , Richard Chamberlain , Olivia de Havilland and Richard Widmark in the lead roles.

Another film adaptation of a novel by Herzog was the animal horror film Orca, produced by Dino De Laurentiis , the killer whale with Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling in the lead roles.

In addition to SF novels, Herzog wrote a number of non-fiction books and reports, his most famous work of this kind is Vesco (1987), in which he followed in the footsteps of the stock exchange shark and fraudster Robert Vesco . His True Crime books include 17 Days (2003) about the abduction of 9-year-old Katie Beers in 1992.

Herzog was married six times and had one son. He died of complications from a stroke at the age of 83.

bibliography

  • McCarthy For President (nonfiction, 1965)
  • The Church Trap (non-fiction, 1968)
  • The War Peace Establishment (non-fiction, 1969)
  • The Swarm (novel, 1974)
    • English: The killer bees. Translated by Eike Arnold and Hans Boelicke. Ullstein, 1977, ISBN 3-550-06259-1 .
  • Earthsound (novel, 1975)
  • Orca (novel, 1977)
    • English: Orca, the killer whale. Translated by Sabine Reinhardt. Ullstein books # 3425, 1977, ISBN 3-548-03425-X .
  • Heat (novel, 1977)
  • IQ 83 (novel, 1978)
  • Make Us Happy (Roman, 1978)
  • Glad to be Here (novel, 1979)
  • Aries Rising (novel, 1980)
  • The Craving (novel, 1982)
  • Vesco: from Wall Street to Castro's Cuba: the rise, fall, and exile of the king of white collar crime (Sachbuch, 1987)
  • The Woodchipper Murder (1989)
  • 17 Days: The Katie Beers Story (True Crime, 2003)
  • The BS Factor (2003)
  • L * S * I * T * T (1983, also as takeover )
  • A Murderer In Our Town (True Crime, 2004).
  • Icetopia (novel, 2004)
  • Beyond Sci-Fi (Short Stories, 2007)
  • The Third State (novel, 2005)
  • How to Write Almost Anything Faster and Better (non-fiction, 2006)
  • Body Parts (short stories, 2005)
  • Polar Swap (novel, 2008)
  • Imortalon (novel, 2004)
  • The Town That Moved to Mexico (novel, 2004)
  • The Village Buyers (novel, 2003)
  • Beyond Sci-Fi (Short Stories, 2007)

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personal data
SURNAME Duke, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzog, Arthur III (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2010
Place of death Southampton , New York