[publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Compnay, New York] Hardcover 265 pages. 195 x 142 mm. Spine expertly repaired. New front free end paper. The inscription: "To my brother John / Nathan Asch / Christmas 1925." Nathan Asch (July 10, 1902 Warsaw, Poland - December 23, 1964 San Francisco, U.S.A.) was a Polish - American writer of Jewish origin. His father was the famous Yiddish writer Shalom Asch. The Asch family moved to Paris in 1912 and immigrated to the United States of America three years later and settled in rural Staten Island, New York City. Nathan Ash studied at Syracuse University and Columbia University in New York, worked as a stockbroker and returned to Europe, to Paris, in 1923. There he met Ernest Hemingway, who supported him quite uncharacteristically. Asch's three short stories appeared in the magazine transantlantic review (1924), which Ford Madox Ford published with the help of Ezra Pound and Hemingway. German translations appeared in The Cross Section (Marc Kranz, 1925), the stories Death of a Hero, Im stillen Thal 1931 in the Neue Rundschau. His novels were published by respected publishers and were also translated into German. In 1926 Asch returned to the USA with his wife and child. In the 1930s he worked in Hollywood as a film writer for Paramount Pictures and was employed by the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal period. Most of his novels (like his father's books) fell victim to the book burning in Germany on May ...
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