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Kingdom of shadows by alan furst6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Titles include: Night Soldiers, Kingdom of Shadows (which won the 2001 Hammett Prize), Blood of Victory, Spies of the Balkans and Mission to Paris. ![]() His novels are set just prior to and during the Second World War. He was born in New York City on February 20, 1941, and was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (Publisher Provided) Alan Furst is an American author of spy novels. Furst again made the New York Times Bestseller in 2016 with his novel a Hero of France. In 2011, the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma selected Furst to receive its Helmerich Award, a literary prize given annually to honor a distinguished author's body of work He also made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2012 with his title The Mission to Paris and Midnight in Europe in 2014. Born in New York on February 20, 1941, he lived for long periods in France, especially Paris where he was awarded a Fulbright teaching fellowship. It was the first of his highly original novels about espionage in Europe before and during the Second World War. However, the 1988 publication of Night Soldiers inspired by a 1984 trip to Eastern Europe on assignment for Esquire revitalized his career. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune His early novels (1976-1983) achieved limited success. ![]()
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