looking for a famous European American writer.

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Hi everybody, I want to do a research about a famous American writer but of

a European origin. So far I didn't find him.

Appreciate any help about my research.

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Could you be a bit more specific?
The only name that springs to my mind is Jerzy Kosiński.

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@George,

It could be so many people...

Vladimir Nabokov, for example..

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Thanks George, thanks Francis.

I wrote about Jerzy Kosiński, not that I knew him before, I just chose to write

about him. However, I'm having a bit of difficulty finding what other authors

or writers say about him.

Pity that he committed suicide.

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@Francis,

I suppose he does qualify as European, though his formative years were spent in Russia. Don't the Russians claim him as their own?

I'm honestly having trouble thinking of others who qualify, particulary those with the "famous" distinction. The trend seems to be that great American writers emigrate to Europe, not the other way aorund.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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@Gargamel,

The same could be said about Jerzy Kosiński.

But they both were Americans as they were naturalized.

There's more Europeans becoming famous american writers in my list than the other way around, even though there's a whole lot of them too..

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@navigator,

Elie Wiesel

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@Francis,

Sure, Nabokov was more American than he was European and arguably Russian. But he wrote in Russian while in Europe. He began writing in English, or publishing in English, after moving to the states. I think.

Who are the Europeans who became famous American writers? I'm starting to feel dense.

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Charles Simic

Uh, Jhumpa Lahiri

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Abraham Cahan

So that about covers my paltry Jewish-American library...

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@navigator,

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. . . However, I'm having a bit of difficulty finding what other authors or writers say
about him. . . .

Have you read these?
Words in Search of Victims: The Achievement of Jerzy Kosinski.
by Paul R. Lilly, Jr.
Plays of Passion, Games of Chance: Jerzy Kosinski and his Fiction.
by Barbara Tepa Lupack
Jerzy Kosinski
by Byron L. Sherwin

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The McCourt bros. Frank and Malacky.

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I can only think of two: Thomas Paine and Isaac Asimov.

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@farmerman,

Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants, returned to Ireland with his parents and then returned to US on his own.

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Mario Puzo

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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (you can see why he wrote as P.G.)

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@Green Witch,

Green Witch Paine also is the one that came to my mind first.

Thomas Paine born in England.

How many American founding fathers can claimed to had written their most famous book in a French prison waiting to hear if you would be guillotine and after your death had your bones stolen and taken back to England?

looking for a famous European American writer.

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