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Name: Frederic Prokosch  
   
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Date of Birth: 17th May 1908
   
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Frederic Prokosch (May 17, 1908 – June 6, 1989) was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism. He was also a distinguished translator.

His novels Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled were bestsellers in the 1930s. The drama in both these unusual novels takes place in Asia, a continent Prokosch had not visited but wrote about from his imagination. Landscape descriptions are prevalent in the novels, such that the landscape takes on the role of a character in its own right. Subsequently to the 1930s, popular interest in Prokosch's writing dropped away, but he gained higher status critically, with André Gide and other French writers and Gore Vidal among his champions.

He was born in Madison, Wisconsin, into an intellectual family who travelled widely, and was precociously bright, finishing his first degree at age 18. He was educated at Haverford College, Yale University and King's College, Cambridge. Subsequently he led a peripatetic life, mostly in Europe, meeting many of the literary figures of his time, some of whom appeared in his memoirs. His interests were sport (tennis and squash) and lepidoptery.

He died in Grasse, France.

Works

  • The Somnambulists (1933) poems
  • Asiatics (1935) novel
  • The Assassins (1936) poems
  • The Seven Who Fled (1937) novel
  • The Carnival (1938) poems
  • Night of the Poor (1939) novel
  • Death at Sea (1940)
  • Some poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin (1943) translator
  • Chosen Poems (1945)
  • The Age of Thunder (1945)
  • Louise Labé, Love sonnets (1947) translator
  • The Missolonghi Manuscript (1968) novel
  • Voices: a Memoir (1983) autobiography

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