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(1924-2015) Author, essayist. Frederic Morton was born in and died in Vienna, Austria. He and his family fled the Nazis in 1939 first to England and then to New York, where they changed their name to Morton.

Full Name

Frederic Morton

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Morton attended City College of New York and Columbia University.

Unknown

RESIDENCE

Mr. Morton lived most of his life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York.

1924

BIRTH

Frederic Mandelbaum was born in Vienna, Austria, on October 5, 1924.

1947

LITWORK

The Hound
Dodd Mead

Novel.

1962

LITWORK

The Rothschilds
Atheneum

Nonfiction.

1965

LITWORK

The Schatten Affair
Atheneum

Novel.

1968

LITWORK

Snow Gods
World Publishing

Novel.

1976

LITWORK

An Unknown Woman
Little Brown & Co.
0316585319 / 978-0316585316
Novel.

1979

LITWORK

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889
Little Brown Company
0316585327 / 978-0316585323
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

The Forever Street
Doubleday
0385171595 / 978-0385171595
Novel.

1989

LITWORK

Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913-14
Charles Scribner's Sons
1127542656 / 978-1127542659
Nonfiction.

2005

LITWORK

Runaway Waltz
Simon & Schuster
0743225392 / 978-0743225397
Memoir.

2015

DEATH

Frederic Morton died while visiting in Vienna, Austria, on April 20, 2015.

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