12 Facts About Louis Begley

Louis Begley was born on Ludwik Begleiter; October 6,1933 and is a Polish-American novelist.

Louis Begley is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel Wartime Lies and the Schmidt trilogy: About Schmidt, Schmidt Delivered and Schmidt Steps Back.

Louis Begley lived with his mother at first in Lwow, and then in Warsaw until the end of the August 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

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

Louis Begley 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 Stephane Dujarric, the chief spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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

Louis Begley retired from the firm on January 1,2004.

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

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

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

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

Louis Begley 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.