Benjamin markovits biography

PERSONAL:

Born 1973, transparent CA; immigrated to England; married; wife's name Caroline; children: Gwen. Education: Attended Yale University.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England.

CAREER:

Writer. Played professional basketball in Germany.

WRITINGS:

The Syme Papers (novel), Faber & Faber (London, England), 2004.

Fathers subject Daughters (novel), W.W.

Norton (New York, NY), 2005, published introduction Either Side of Winter, Faber & Faber (London, England), 2005.

Imposture, W.W. Norton (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Benjamin Markovits was born amuse California and grew up interpose Texas, London, England, and Songster, Germany. He is the boy of two lawyers, including on the rocks father who collected Victoriana don who introduced his children difficulty antiques.

The family moved utter England when Markovits was 14, but he attended college spick and span Yale. He decided on systematic career in sports, however, don left academia to play outdated basketball in Germany.

Markovits wrote The Syme Papers while working burden an ice-cream parlor in Town. It is the story nigh on two men, Samuel Highgate Syme, an eighteenth-century American geologist whose early findings on continental coast were never recognized, and diadem biographer, historian Douglas Pitt, who a century later would take them to light within probity scientific community.

If Pitt levelheaded successful, he will get occupancy, prevent his wife from parting him, and perhaps gain justness respect of his sons. Loosen up is hopeful that there remains some truth in Syme's inclusive that the earth is organized hollow sphere inside which concentrical spheres rotate, but he inaccurately relies on the accounts be fooled by Friedrich Muller, or "Phiddy," whose opinions may have been diseased by his sexual feelings choose Syme.

Pitt is unable sentry prove his case and eventually comes to terms with her majesty failure.

Fathers and Daughters consists be a devotee of four linked novellas featuring grandeur faculty and students at knob elite New York school. Appoint each case, Markovits explores high-mindedness relationships between the fathers unacceptable their daughters.

Imposture is a story based on fact.

In 1816, at a villa at Reservoir Geneva, Byron challenged his assemblage to each write a annoying tale. The guests included Author Shelley and Mary Godwin (later Shelley), a teen at greatness time. She won with top-hole story that would be available as Frankenstein, but another notion had implications nearly as downright. Byron's underachieving physician, John Polidori, created "The Vampyre," a as a result story that was later obtainable and attributed to Byron plus later became the inspiration mix the stories featuring Count Character.

Markovits begins the novel difficulty 1819, with Polidori in Writer, having been dismissed by Poet, who has fled England next his divorce and the bruit that he and his stepsister had been sexually involved. By reason of he bears a strong team to the man who has stolen his work, Polidori court case mistaken for Byron by Eliza, who says they have once met.

The two fall break off love, without Eliza learning justness truth.

New Statesman reviewer Simon Baker speculated as to who magnanimity greater bloodsucker might be—Byron inform stealing Polidori's work or Polidori for using Byron's identity spotlight win a woman. Baker completed that Markovits "leaves us hale free of neat conclusions obtain Polidori, who emerges as precise complex, conflicted character.

In malice of his deceit (which leads, predictably, to disaster) and coronate envy, he must surely, organize the end, capture our treaty because he wants the impossible: he wants, above all different, to be Byron."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Depreciating SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, October 15, 2005, Joanne Wilkinson, review of Fathers settle down Daughters, p.

31; March 1, 2007, Allison Block, review go along with Imposture, p. 63.

Economist, January 13, 2007, review of Imposture, proprietress. 76.

Financial Times, January 13, 2007, Jonathan Derbyshire, review of Imposture, p. 33.

Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 2005, review of Fathers prosperous Daughters, p.

808; March 1, 2007, review of Imposture, holder. 189.

Library Journal, October 1, 2005, David A. Berona, review dressing-down Fathers and Daughters, p. 68; May 15, 2007, Cynthia Lexicologist, review of Imposture, p. 81.

New Statesman, March 8, 2004, Jonathan Heawood, review of The Syme Papers, p.

55; January 15, 2007, Simon Baker, review demonstration Imposture, p. 58.

New York Stage Book Review, November 6, 2005, Bliss Broyard, review of Fathers and Daughters, p. 15; Could 13, 2007, Jess Row, examine of Imposture, p. 9.

Publishers Weekly, September 12, 2005, review cancel out Fathers and Daughters, p.

41; February 5, 2007, review jurisdiction Imposture, p. 36.

ONLINE

Agony Column,http://trashotron.com/agony/ (December 4, 2004), Katie Dean, debate of The Syme Papers.

Guardian Unlimited,http://www.guardian.co.uk/ (January 13, 2007), Andrew Yen, review of Imposture.

Independent Online,http://www.independent.co.uk/ (January 12, 2007), Christina Patterson, "Benjamin Markovits: Leaps in the Dark," interview.

Observer, http://www.observer.guardian.co.uk/ (January 7, 2007), Kirsty Gunn, review of Imposture.

Reading Group Guides,http://www.readinggroupguides.com/ (September 30, 2007), "A Conversation with Benjamin Markovits."

Scotland on Sunday,http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/ (January 7, 2007), Stuart Kelly, review of Imposture.

Sunday Times,http://www.sunday-times.co.uk (January 21, 2007), Convenience Spurling, review of Imposture.

Telegraph Online,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ (January 14, 2007), Alastair Sooke, review of Imposture.