On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacán, Mexico. He died the next day. In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky’s assassination as witnessed through the eyes of an array of characters: the young American student helping to translate the exiled Trotsky’s work (and to guard him), the Mexican police chief, a Rumanian revolutionary, the assassin and his handlers, a poor Mexican “peón,” and Trotsky himself. Drawing on his own experiences working as the exiled Trotsky’s secretary and bodyguard and mixing in digressions on Mexican culture, Stalinist tactics, and Bolshevik history, Wolfe interweaves fantasy and fact, delusion and journalistic reporting to create one of the great political novels of the past century.

The Great Prince Died: A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky

Literature & Fiction

WOLFE, Bernard

United States

University of Chicago Press

Really the Blues

Biographies & Memoirs

Mezzrow, Mezz

Arts & Literature

Souvenir Press

In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters.  The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously as a secretary-bodyguard for Leon Trotsky in Mexico, a cataloger of the Irving Fisher papers, and a hopelessly inept drill-grinder, Wolfe landed his first professional writing job: turning out piecework porn at $2.00 a page for an Oklahoma millionaire. He credited his pornographic efforts with teaching him to write to specified lengths while facing deadlines: I acquired the work discipline of a professional writer, capable of a solid daily output.”

Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer

DOUBLEDAY

A novel about a Hollywood writer who starts to teach a course in literature and revolution at a nearby college where he meets a Vietnam veteran and beautiful young political activist who are also writers.

Logan's gone: A novel

Nash Publishing

After hiding on a remote island from the nuclear war, Dr. Martine explores the remains of the world

Limbo

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Lies

Wollstonecraft : distributed by Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers

Trotsky dead

The story of a novelist and screenwriter who crosses paths with various Hollywood types. It concludes with a screenplay that features the novel's protagonist as a character in a film about Hollywood.

COME OUT, DADDY.

NY: SCRIBNERS. 1963

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Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Pierides Press

Hypnotism Comes Of Age - Its Progress From Mesmer Of Psychoanalysis

Pringle Press

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