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Louis Begley (Ludwik Begleiter) was born on 6 October, 1933 in Stryj, Poland, is a Polish–American novelist. Discover Louis Begley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

Popular As Ludwik Begleiter
Occupation writer
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 6 October, 1933
Birthday 6 October
Birthplace Stryj, Poland
Nationality Ukraine

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His wife is Sally Higginson (m. 1956-1970) Anka Muhlstein (m. 1974)

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Children 3 (including Adam Begley)

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1933

Louis Begley (born Ludwik Begleiter; October 6, 1933) is a Polish-American novelist.

1939

It was his first experience of formal instruction since kindergarten during the Soviet occupation of Stryi, which followed the German invasion of western Poland in 1939.

1944

He lived with his mother at first in Lwów, and then in Warsaw until the end of the August 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

By the time World War II ended, they were in Kraków, where they were reunited with Begley’s father.

1945

During the school year 1945/46, Begley attended the Jan Sobieski school in Kraków.

1946

The family left Poland in the fall of 1946 for Paris and, in late February 1947, left Paris for New York City, arriving on March 3.

Shortly afterward, the family name was changed from Begleiter to Begley.

After graduating from Erasmus Hall High School, Begley studied English literature at Harvard College (AB '54, summa cum laude), where he worked at The Advocate, an undergraduate literary magazine.

1956

In 1956, Begley married Sally Higginson (1928-2017).

In 1956 Begley entered Harvard Law School.

1959

Upon his graduation in 1959 (LL.B. magna cum laude), he joined the New York firm now known as Debevoise & Plimpton as an associate.

1968

He became a partner January 1, 1968, while serving at the newly established Paris office.

Upon his return to New York, Begley headed the firm’s international practice for many years, his work being concentrated on large projects in Australia, Algeria, Latin America, Canada and Europe, for Japanese, European and Brazilian as well as American clients.

1970

They divorced in May 1970.

1974

In March 1974, Begley married his present wife, Anka Muhlstein, a historian and biographer born in Paris.

Begley has three children: painter and sculptor Peter Begley, writer Adam Begley, and novelist and art historian Amey Larmore (who writes under the pen name Laura Moore) He also has two stepsons from Muhlstein’s previous marriage: Robert Dujarric, the director of the Institute for Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University Japan Campus in Tokyo, and Stéphane Dujarric, the chief spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

1991

He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel Wartime Lies (1991) and the Schmidt trilogy: About Schmidt (1996), Schmidt Delivered (2000) and Schmidt Steps Back (2012).

Begley was born Ludwik Begleiter in Stryi, then part of the Polish Republic and now in Ukraine, the only child of a physician.

Using forged identity papers that enabled them to pretend to be Polish Catholics, he and his mother survived the Nazi occupation in which many Polish Jews were killed.

It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1991 and the Prix Médicis étranger in 1992.

There have been attempts to adapt it into a film by Stanley Kubrick and William Monahan, but this has not come to fruition to date.

1992

He served on PEN's board of directors from 1992-2001.

He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres Philosophical Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1993

From 1993 to 1995, Begley was president of PEN American Center.

1996

Begley's 1996 novel About Schmidt was the basis for the eponymous 2002 film by Alexander Payne.

Payne made many changes from the book, though Begley commented in an essay in The New York Times that "my most important themes were treated with great intelligence and sensitivity" and felt the movie was "a gem of original filmmaking."

Begley’s first nine novels have been published by Alfred A. Knopf, and republished by Ballantine Publishing Company.

His most recent works have been published as hardcover by Nan A. Talese and reissued as paperback by Ballantine Publishing Company.

His novels have been translated into fifteen languages.

2001

In 2001, a selection of Begley's essays and journalistic pieces was published by Suhrkamp Verlag (Frankfurt) under the title Das Gelobte Land.

2003

Venedig Unter Vier Augen, a book on Venetian themes by Anka Muhlstein and Louis Begley, was published in 2003 by Marebuch Verlag (Hamburg).

2004

He retired from the firm on January 1, 2004.

Begley's first novel, Wartime Lies, was based on his childhood as a Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi death camps.

2005

It was also published in English in 2005 by Haus Publishing under the title Venice for Lovers, and reissued under the same title by Grove Press in the U.S..

2006

Zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen, the text of Begley's lectures given as part of Poetik Dozentur at Heidelberg University in November 2006, was published by Suhrkamp in January 2008.

2008

The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head, Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay was published by Atlas & Co. in 2008.

2009

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters was published by Yale University Press in 2009.

Prizes and awards include: The Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, National Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics’ Circle Finalist, PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, Prix Médicis Étranger, Jeanette-Schocken-Pries, Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur, American Academy of Letters Award in Literature, and Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Literaturpreis.

2018

Service in the United States Army followed, the last 18 months of it in Göppingen, Germany, with the 9th Division.