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Ralph Freedman has republished Divided, his first novel, through Twilight Times Books. A World War II era novel about love, betrayal, honor and loss, Divided focuses on a small Austrian town in the tension-filled days between the German retreat and … Continue reading
The novel “Divided”, written as long ago as 1946-47, received the Lewis and Clark Northwest Award for publication by EP Dutton in 1948. It is now being prepared for republication by Twilight Times Books, following revisions to bring it up … Continue reading
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Ralph Freedman, who grew up in Nazi Germany, emigrated at 19 to England and ultimately the United States. He served in the US Army during World War II, in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy, afterwards graduating from the University of Washington and earning a doctorate at Yale. He taught 12 years at the University of Iowa, 22 at Princeton and for two post-retirement years at Emory University. He wrote and published two novels (Divided, 1948 and Rue the Day, 2009), criticism (The Lyrical Novel, 1963), biographies of Hesse (1978), Rilke (1996), and many essays. His works have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese. A Chinese version of the biography of Rilke is in press.
Ralph Freedman 