David Ely

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David Ely (actually David Eli Lilienthal ; born November 19, 1927 in Chicago ) is an American writer and journalist. He is known for his psychological thrillers and science fiction .

Life

Ely began studying at the University of North Carolina in 1944 . From 1945 to 1946 he served in the United States Navy . After military service, he continued his studies at Harvard , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1949 , after which he worked as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in St. Louis . 1950 to 1952 he served again in the United States Army , then he worked until 1956 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . From 1954 to 1955 he was on a Fulbright Fellowship at St Antony's College , Oxford . From 1956 to 1959 he was an administrative clerk at Development and Resources Corporation in New York .

He started writing in the late 1950s. In 1961, a first story, Court of Judgment , appeared in SF magazine Fantastic . In 1963 the first novel was published, Trot , in which the eponymous hero Sergeant Trot, an investigator for the CID in post-war Paris, suddenly found himself on the other side and forced to hide with the criminals he had previously investigated.

His second novel Seconds , published in the same year, was made into a film in 1966 by John Frankenheimer with Rock Hudson in the lead role (German title: The man who lived twice ). It is about an organization that transforms middle-aged men into young beauties, which initially has the expected positive effect on them, but then brings them into existential conflicts.

In 1963, his short story The Sailing Club won the Edgar Allan Poe Award , and Ely was nominated for The Light in the Cottage (1974) and Going Backward (1978).

Several of his novels have been translated into German, the novel Seconds and the Time Out story collection also into Dutch.

bibliography

Novels
  • Trot: A Novel of Suspense (1963)
    • German: The Trot case. Translated by Werner von Grünau. Droemer / Knaur, Munich & Zurich 1965.
  • Seconds (1963)
    • German: The reversed life. Translated by Werner von Grünau. Droemer / Knaur, Munich & Zurich 1964.
  • The Tour (1967)
    • German: The tour to Santomaso. Translated by Helmut Lindemann . GB Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1968.
  • Poor Devils (1970)
    • German: poor devils. Translated by Peter Naujack. Rio-Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-9520059-5-9 .
  • Walking Davis (1972)
  • Mr. Nicholas (1975)
  • A Journal of the Flood Year (1992)
Collections
  • Time Out (1968)
  • Always Home and Other Stories (1991)
Short stories
  • Court of Judgment (1961)
  • The Last Friday in August (1961)
  • The Alumni March (1962)
  • The Sailing Club (1962)
  • The Wizard of Light (1962)
  • The Human Factor (1963)
  • McDaniels' Flood (1963)
  • The Captain's Boarhunt (1964)
  • The Academy (1965)
  • An Angel of Mercy (1968)
  • Countdown (1968)
  • Creatures of the Sea (1968)
  • Dolley Madison in Peru (1968)
  • Living in Sin (1968)
  • Neighbors (1968)
  • One Sunday After Church (1968)
  • The Evening Guests (1968)
  • The Glory of G. O'D .. (1968)
  • The Interview (1968)
  • The Persecution of the Colonel (1968)
  • Time Out (1968)
  • The Assault on Mount Rushmore (1969)
  • The Carnival (1971)
  • The Light in the Cottage (1974)
  • Starling's Circle (1976)
  • The Running Man (1976)
  • The Weed Killer (1977)
  • Going Backward (1978)
  • The Temporary Daughter (1978)
  • The Rich Girl (1978)
  • The Looting of the Tomb (1979)
  • The Marked Man (1979)
  • Methuselah (1980)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Best Short Story Mystery Edgar Award Winners and Nominees , accessed January 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ely, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilienthal, David Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago