Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin was raised on the Hudson and in the British West Indies. After receiving degrees from Harvard College and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford, Princeton, and Columbia. He has served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. His stories, essays, and commentary have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Criterion, Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, National Review, American Heritage, Forbes ASAP, and many other publications here and abroad. Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Guggenheim Fellow, and advisor on defense and foreign relations to presidential nominee Robert Dole, he has been awarded, among other prizes, the National Jewish Book Award and the Prix de Rome. Translated into dozens of languages, his books include A Dove of the East & Other Stories; Refiner’s Fire; Ellis Island & Other Stories; Winter’s Tale; A Soldier of the Great War; Memoir from Antproof Case; Swan Lake, A City in Winter and The Veil of Snows (illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg); The Pacific & Other Stories; Freddy and Fredericka; and the nonfiction Digital Barbarism.
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