Benjamin Appel (writer)

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Benjamin Appel (born September 13, 1907 in New York City , † April 3, 1977 in Roosevelt , New Jersey ) was an American writer .

Career

Appel grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York as the son of Polish immigrants. Many of his novels are set in this setting. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and New York University and graduated from Lafayette College in 1929 . After various activities, the Second World War brought him to the Philippines. In his novel Fortress in the Rice , he processed the experiences made. The novel was filmed in 1963 under the title Cry of Battle ( Eng .: ball dance after midnight ) with Rita Moreno , Van Heflin and James MacArthur .

Appel had been married to Sophie Marshak since 1936; they had three daughters together. From 1947 they lived in Roosevelt, New Jersey.

Appel began his writing career by publishing poems in literary magazines. His first novel, Brain Guy , was published in 1934 and critics referred to him as the "voice of the streets". In other novels he took up the themes from Brain Guy again until he began to focus on literature for young people from the late 1950s.

Works

Novels

  • Brain Guy , Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1934
  • Runaround , EP Dutton & Co, New York, 1937
  • The Power-House , EP Dutton & Co, New York, 1939
  • The fortress in the rice , Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1951, (German as Hukbalahap or Die fortress in rice )

Youth literature

  • We Were There in the Klondike Gold Rush , Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1956
  • We Were There at the Battle for Bataan , Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1957
  • Why the Russians Are The Way They Are , Little, Brown, Boston, 1966
  • Why the Chinese Are The Way They Are , Little, Brown, Boston, 1968
  • Hitler From Power to Ruin , Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1964
  • Ben-Gurion's Israel , Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1965

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biographical entry at the University of Oregon Library
  2. ↑ ball dance after midnight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Appel, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1977
Place of death Roosevelt , New Jersey