Name Noah Gordon Role Novelist | Movies The Physician | |
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Parents Rose Gordon, Robert Gordon Awards James Feni Cooper Prize Books The Physician, The Last Jew, Shaman, Matters of Choice, The Death Committee Similar People Philipp Stolzl, Jan Berger, Hagen Bogdanski, Udo Kramer, Thomas Olah | ||
Meet noah gordon
Noah Gordon (born November 11, 1926) is an American novelist. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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- Meet noah gordon
- Noah gordon entrevista revista castells
- Early life and career
- Works and Reception
- Novels
- References
Noah gordon entrevista revista castells
Early life and career
Gordon was the son of a pawnbroker in Worcester, Massachusetts. He reported for the Worcester Telegram, until he was hired by the Boston Herald in 1959.
He had three children with his wife, Lorraine.
Works and Reception
Some of the topics covered within his novels include medical history and medical ethics. More recently he has begun to focus more on themes relating to the Inquisition, and Jewish cultural history.
Gordon's debut novel, The Rabbi spent 26 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list in 1965. When publishing The Physician, the book was picked up by Random House - Germany, which promoted the book in Europe, where Gordon became a very popular in Spain and Italy. His novel The Last Jew won "Que Leer Prize" (Spain) and "Boccaccio Literary Prize" (Italy).
Though Gordon's reception internationally has been quite strong, as of 2015, the Boston Globe described Gordon as relatively unknown in the United States. New York Times writer Carey Goldberg described a similar tension between Gordon's widespread popularity in Germany and relative lack of awareness in the United States in 1996.
His novel Shaman won the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1993.