Paul Schmidtberger

Last updated

Paul Schmidtberger is an American author based in Paris, France.

Contents

Biography

He is the author of Design Flaws of the Human Condition , [1] an urban comedy of adultery published by Random House in 2007.

Originally from Schooley's Mountain in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey, Schmidtberger attended the Lawrenceville School and is a graduate of Yale College and Stanford Law School. [2]

Schmidtberger was a practicing lawyer specialized in intellectual property and international arbitration, but now writes full-time. He has written articles for numerous US publications, including The New York Times , and is working on a new novel. [3] He has lived in Paris for over twelve years. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Styron</span> American writer (1925–2006)

William Clark Styron Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicholson Baker</span> Contemporary American novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer

Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were distinguished by their minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. Out of a total of ten novels, three are erotica: Vox, The Fermata and House of Holes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Billy Collins</span> American poet

William James Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</span> Lebanese-American author (born 1960)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. The Sunday Times called his 2007 book The Black Swan one of the 12 most influential books since World War II.

Adam Thirlwell is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has twice been named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the London editor of The Paris Review.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean de Brunhoff</span> French artist and writer

Jean de Brunhoff was a French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books concerning a fictional elephant, the first of which was published in 1931.

John Ivan Simon was an American author and literary, theater, and film critic. After spending his early years in Belgrade, he moved to the United States, serving in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and studying at Harvard University. Beginning in the 1950s, he wrote arts criticism for a variety of publications, including a 36-year tenure as theatre critic for New York magazine, and latterly as a blogger.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred A. Knopf</span> American publishing house

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915. Blanche and Alfred traveled abroad regularly and were known for publishing European, Asian, and Latin American writers in addition to leading American literary trends. It was acquired by Random House in 1960, and is now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group division of Penguin Random House which is owned by the German conglomerate Bertelsmann. The Knopf publishing house is associated with its borzoi colophon, which was designed by co-founder Blanche Knopf in 1925.

Harold Louis Humes, Jr. was known as HL Humes in his books, and usually as "Doc" Humes in life. He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the late 1950s, and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s and early 1960s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Levitin</span> American psychologist (born 1957)

Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC is an American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, which has sold more than 1 million copies.

<i>The Da Vinci Code</i> 2003 novel by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gary Shteyngart</span> Russian-American writer

Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of five novels and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical.

Jennifer Allen is an American author and commentator. She has worked for the NFL Network and as an on-air reporter. She is the daughter of football coach George Allen and sister of politician George Allen and football executive Bruce Allen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pamela Paul</span> American journalist (born 1970s)

Pamela Paul is an American columnist, journalist, editor, and author. Since 2022, she has been an op-ed writer for The New York Times. From 2013 to 2022, she was the editor of The New York Times Book Review, where her role expanded to oversee all New York Times book coverage including the staff critics and publishing news.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rob Walker (journalist)</span> American journalist and author

Rob Walker is an American journalist, author and educator, whose primary interests include design, business, technology, consumer culture, and the arts.

<i>The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel</i> Fantasy book series by Irish author Michael Scott

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel is a series of six fantasy novels written by Irish author Michael Scott, completed in 2012. The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012. The cover artist for the series is Michael Wagner.

Russell H. Greenan is an American author with an established readership in the U.S.A. and Europe, particularly France. His first book It Happened in Boston? was reprinted in 2003 in the U.S.A. as a 20th Century Rediscovery by Modern Library. His fourth book The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton was made into a motion picture titled The Secret Life of Algernon in 1997.

Paul Schmidt may refer to:

Design Flaws of the Human Condition is a novel by Paul Schmidtberger.

Charles Belfoure is an American writer, architect and historian specializing in historic preservation, author of several histories and fiction works, including The New York Times best-selling novel The Paris Architect.

References

  1. "Random House Author Page" . Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  2. "Rusoff Agency Author Page" . Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  3. Schmidtberger, Paul (7 May 2010). "City Room". New York Times.
  4. Keramitas, Dmitri (27 May 2010). "Interview with Paul Schmidtberger". Paris Writers News.