Name Herbert Lieberman Role Novelist | ||
 | ||
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere - International Category Books City of the dead, Crawlspace, The girl with the Botticelli, The Eighth Square, Shadow dancers | ||
Herbert Henry Lieberman (born September 22, 1933 in New Rochelle, New York) is a mystery/crime novelist and playwright. He received his AB from City College of New York and his AM from Columbia University. In 1977 he won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière's International Prize for City of the Dead. He is a former managing editor of the Reader's Digest Book Club.
Contents
Novels
Plays produced and cinematography
Personal life
Liberman's mother was an orphan who fled Romania, and came over to America on the Lusitania. She married Abraham Lieberman, of New Rochelle, New York. Herbert married Judith Barsky, and they have one daughter, and twin granddaughters.
Herbert, as a teenager, used to work at a soda pop shop. When he grew up, he worked at the New York Reader's Digest Book Club. Currently, he lives in California with his wife, and his wire-haired dachshund, Henry.
His horror novels were based upon nightmares which he had.