Louis Begley (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Louis Begley (born Ludwik Begleiter) was still a child when Nazi Germany occupied Poland and began persecuting the Jewish population. His father, a physician, was sent to Russia and returned in 1946, when the family emigrated to the United States. Louis became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1953, attended Harvard University, and graduated in 1954. After two years in the U.S. Army, he returned to Harvard, earning a law degree in 1959. In 1956 he married Sally Higginson and joined a New York law firm, becoming a full partner in 1968. He and his first wife had three children before they...
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