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Stefan Kanfer

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Stefan Kanfer is the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling biographies of show business icons: GROUCHO; BALL OF FIRE ; SOMEBODY ; and TOUGH WITHOUT A GUN . He has also written many social histories, among them THE LAST EMPIRE, about the De Beers diamond company, and STARDUST LOST, an account of the rise and fall of the Yiddish Theater in New York.

Kanfer also wrote two novels about World War II and served as the only journalist on the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. He was the first by-lined cinema critic for Time magazine, where he worked as writer and editor for more than two decades. He has been given many writing awards and was named a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He lives in New York where he serves as a columnist for the City Journal of the Manhattan Institute.

Stefan Kanfer

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Books from Stefan Kanfer

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

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Stefan Kanfer

Stefan Kanfer

Books from Stefan Kanfer

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx

The Eskimo Hunts in the Twin Cities

Stories of Success: The Young Adventurer and The Young Miner (Illustrated)

Stories of Success: Bound to Rise and Risen from the Ranks (Illustrated)

The Eskimo Hunts in Miami

Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America (Vintage)

Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America (Vintage)

Journal of the Plague Years

Stories of Success: Ragged Dick

Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart

Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America

A Summer World: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt

The International Garage Sale

Stories of Success: Ragged Dick, Fame and Fortune, and Mark the Match Boy

Hell Money

A Summer World: The Astonishing History of the Jews in the Catskills -- the Borscht Belt -- from the 18th Century to the Present Day

A Summer World: The Astonishing History of the Jews in the Catskills -- the Borscht Belt -- from the 18th Century to the Present Day

Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America

The Eighth Sin