Since 1971, award-winning author Frederick Busch has published more than twenty works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels The Mutual Friend, about Charles Dickens, Rounds, Invisible Mending, Sometimes I Live in the Country, Harry and Catherine, Long Way from Home, and the bestselling Closing Arguments and Girls. A compilation of his short fiction,The Children in the Woods: New and Selected Stories, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1995. His most recent books are A Dangerous Profession, a collection of essays about the writing life, and Letters to a Fiction Writer, an anthology for which he served as both editor and contributor. A new short story collection, Don't Tell Anyone, will be published early in 2001.

Books by Frederick Busch

A Memory of War

by Frederick Busch

Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, when a new patient declares he is the doctor’s half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak’s Jewish mother and a German prisoner-of-war. Suddenly Lescziak finds his world closing in on him, as events acquire new significance.

Don't Tell Anyone

by Frederick Busch

The Night Inspector

by Frederick Busch

The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind.

Girls

by Frederick Busch

Closing Arguments

by Frederick Busch