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Frederick Busch

Biography

Frederick Busch

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, RoundsInvisible MendingSometimes I Live in the CountryHarry and CatherineLong 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.

Frederick Busch

Books by Frederick Busch

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.

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.