Alan Furst

Author of The Foreign Correspondent

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Books by Alan Furst

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The Foreign Correspondent 479 copies, 10 reviews
The Polish Officer 418 copies, 6 reviews
Night Soldiers 411 copies, 6 reviews
Kingdom of Shadows 387 copies, 4 reviews
Dark Star 371 copies, 5 reviews
Blood of Victory 341 copies, 4 reviews
Dark Voyage 324 copies, 9 reviews
The World at Night 296 copies, 4 reviews
Red Gold 268 copies, 5 reviews
Spies of Warsaw 266 copies, 20 reviews
The Book of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage (Modern Library… 57 copies, 2 reviews
The Paris Drop 16 copies
Your Day in the Barrel 13 copies
Shadow Trade 12 copies

The Caribbean Account 9 copies

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Canonical name

Furst, Alan

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Date of birth

1941-02-20

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Gender

male

Nationality

USA

Places of residence

New York, New York, USA

Paris, France

Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, USA

Montpellier, France

Education

Oberlin College (BA), 1962

Pennsylvania State University (MA), 1967

Occupations

Magazine writer

academic

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Awards and honors

Fullbright Teaching Fellowship (1969)

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Short biography

Alan Furst was born and raised in Manhattan. He lived in the South of France—as a Fulbright Teaching fellow at the Faculte des Lettres at the University of Montpellier, then in Seattle, where he worked for the City of Seattle Arts Commission. . He wrote for magazines—travel pieces and book reviews for Esquire, and wrote and published four novels. Returning to France, he lived in Paris, wrote a weekly column for The International Herald Tribune, and wrote his first historical espionage novel, Night Soldiers in 1988.

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