Noah Gordon
Noah Gordon (born November 11, 1926 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) is an American writer .
Life
Noah Gordon was born the second child of Robert and Rose Gordon in Worcester , Massachusetts, USA. His first name was chosen after his grandfather Noah Melnikoff. In 1945 he graduated from high school . Despite glasses and color blindness, he joined the army and later the navy. After the Second World War, he first studied medicine, but then discovered his passion for writing and studied journalism. In 1950 he received his bachelor's degree in journalism and later his master's in English and creative writing from Boston University .
He married Lorraine Seay and lived with her in New York. After their first child, they moved to Boston. He then worked for many years at the Boston Herald . After the publication of a number of stories, he made his breakthrough with his first novel The Rabbi . His novels about the fictional medical dynasty of the Cole family ( The Medicus , The Shamane , The Heirs of the Medicus ) are particularly successful . His most recent works deal with the Inquisition and Jewish cultural history .
For the second novel The Shaman from the Medicus series, he received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction in the spring of 1993 .
Gordon has three children. Today he lives with his wife in a retirement home and looks after the library there, which he donated to the retirement home.
Works
"Cole Family" cycle
- The medicus . (orig .: "The Physician"). Droemer Knaur , Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-19192-X .
- The shaman . (orig .: "Shaman"). Droemer Knaur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-426-19298-5 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from March 29 to July 25, 1992 )
- The Medicus' heirs . (orig .: "Matters Of Choice", in USA "Choices"). 3. Edition. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-19331-0 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from September 18, 1995 to February 4, 1996 )
other novels
- A house for the Lord. (orig .: "The Rabbi"). Paul Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna 1967. (also published under the title Der Rabbi ).
- The clinic. (orig .: "The Death Committee"). Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1970.
- Solomon's diamond. (orig .: "The Jerusalem Diamond"). German first edition, Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-60152-4 .
- The medicus of Saragossa . (orig .: "The Last Jew"). 1st edition. Blessing, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-89667-013-1 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 21 to 27, 2000 )
- The Catalan . (orig .: "The Bodega"). 1st edition. Blessing, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89667-367-1 .
Children's and young people's book
- Animal stories. (orig .: "Sam and Other Animal Stories"). 1st edition. cbj-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-570-12830-X .
Film adaptations
The Medicus (film) by the director Philipp Stölzl 2013
Web links
- Literature by and about Noah Gordon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website (English).
- Interview with Gordon on the occasion of the premiere of the film Medicus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Noah Gordon in an interview: "Writing was actually always torture". on: stern.de , December 20, 2013.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gordon, Noah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worcester , ( Massachusetts ), USA |