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Ellis Island and Other Stories

Ellis Island and Other Stories( )
Author: Helprin, Mark
ISBN:978-0-440-32204-7
Publication Date:May 1984
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Laurel
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $4.95
Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Book Weight:0.294 Pounds
Author Biography
Helprin, Mark (Author)
Mark Helprin was born in Manhattan, New York on June 28, 1947. He received degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford, Princeton University, and Columbia University. He has served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force.

He is the author of numerous novels including Refiner's Fire, A Soldier of the Great War, Memoir from Antproof Case, Freddy and Fredericka, and In Sunlight and In Shadow. Winter's Tale was adapted into a movie in 2014. His short story collection, Ellis Island and Other Stories, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1981. His other short story collections include A Dove of the East and Other Stories and The Pacific and Other Stories. He also writes children's books including Swan Lake, A City in Winter, and The Veil of Snows. He has received several awards including the National Jewish Book Award, the Prix de Rome, the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award in 2006, and the Salvatori Prize in the American Founding in 2010.

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