Randolph Splitter

Author biography

Randolph Splitter has published six books, ranging from Proust’s “Recherche”: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation (recently reissued) to five works of fiction, including two literary/historical novels set mostly in Vienna in the first half of the twentieth century: The Third Man, “an artful, tremendously absorbing novel, rich with the humanity of its characters” (Elizabeth McKenzie) about Jewish refugees from Vienna to England in the late 1930s, and The Palace of Justice Is Burning, about a young Jewish girl from the provinces who escapes from a brothel and becomes an advice columnist for a feminist-minded weekly in the progressive Red Vienna of the 1920s. (His parents grew up in Vienna.) He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley; taught college English for many years; and currently lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he dodges raindrops, exercises his social conscience, and continues to write.

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