Seven days in the book world with Louis Begley

Louis is a multi-award winning novelist. Born in Poland, his first novel Wartime Lies is loosely based on his wartime experiences but as he has stated in many interviews it is fiction not fictionalized biography.

Louis studied English Literature at Harvard and was on the staff of The Advocate the undergraduate literary magazine, but wanted to immerse himself in his new life in the US and at the time that didn't include writing novels. Married with three grown up children Louis was a partner at a prestigious New York law firm, he has since retired and become a full time novelist.

Here is Louis's week in his own words.

Last week I finished Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. I started rereading Robert Musil’s Man Without Qualities. And I am rereading once again Dante’s Divine Comedy. I’m now in Purgatorio.

Louis's week in a nutshell

Dark Money (2016)

The Man Without Qualities (1940)

Divine Comedy; Purgatorio (1320)

Killer Come Hither 9780553392449 and Kill and Be Killed 9780385540711 are out now.

Wartime Lies 9780449001172 is also available now.

More at http://www.louisbegley.com/