William Herrick (novelist)
William Herrick (Trenton, NJ, January 10, 1915 – Old Chatham, NY, January 31, 2004) was an American novelist, sometimes referred to as "an American Orwell".[1]
Biography
Herrick was born to Jewish parents who had come to the United States from Belarus and settled in Trenton, New Jersey.[2] Herrick was among the Abraham Lincoln Brigade[3] which fought Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War. Drawing on that experience he wrote Hermanos! (1969), a novel about the war itself, and another novel set in Spain, Shadows and Wolves (1980), about the post-Franco period. He left the American Communist Party over the Hitler–Stalin non-aggression pact in 1939 and criticised the Brigade as willing accomplices of the Communist secret police, who were killing off anyone who criticized the Party.[4]
Two other novels touch on his experience in Spain: Love and Terror (1981) and Kill Memory (1983). His autobiography is entitled Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical (1998).
References
- ↑ Capshaw, Ron (June 1, 2015). "The Man Who Punctured Communism's Lies About the Spanish Civil War". The National Review.
- ↑ Burns, Jim. "William Herrick and the Spanish Civil War". The Penniless Press. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ↑ "William Herrick, 89, Novelist on Espionage". The New York Times. February 9, 2004. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ↑ Capshaw, Ron (June 1, 2015). "The Man Who Punctured Communism's Lies About the Spanish Civil War". The National Review.