Winter’s Tale

Mark Helprin

1983

Manhattan, a high narrow kingdom as hopeful as any that ever was, burst upon him full force, a great and imperfect steel-tressed palace of a hundred million chambers, many-tiered gardens, pools, passages, and ramparts above its rivers. Built upon an island from which bridges stretched to other islands and to the mainland, the palace of a thousand…

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Mark Helprin

b. 1947

Mark Helprin, who grew up in New York and the British West Indies (later serving in the British navy and the Israeli army), has written novels, collections of short stories, journalistic pieces (for The New Yorker and other publications), children’s books, and speeches for American politicians. Among Helprin’s awards are the National Jewish Book Award, the Prix de Rome, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the 2001 Mightier Pen Award from the Center for Security Policy.

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