Berger, Thomas, 1924-2014, (Personal Name)

His Crazy in Berlin, 1958.

New York times (online), viewed July 22, 2014 (in obituary published July 21: Thomas Berger; b. Thomas Louis Berger, July 20, 1924, Cincinnati; d. July 13, Nyack, N.Y., aged 89; lived in Grand View, Rockland County, N.Y.; reclusive and bitingly satirical novelist who explored the myths of the American West in Little big man and the mores of 20th-century middle-class society in a shelf of other well-received books)

Wikipedia(website), viewed Sept. 2, 2021: Thomas Berger (novelist) (Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 - July 13, 2014) was an American novelist. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thomas Berger grew up in the nearby community of Lockland. He interrupted his college career to enlist in the United States Army in 1943. On his return, he studied at the University of Cincinnati, receiving a B.A. in 1948. He then pursued graduate work in English at Columbia University, leaving his thesis unfinished to enroll in the writer's workshop at the New School for Social Research. He supported himself during this time by working as a librarian at the Rand School of Social Science, and was briefly on staff at the New York Times Index. Berger later became a copy editor at Popular Science Monthly, and performed freelance editing during the early years of his writing career. Eventually, Berger was able to devote himself to writing full-time. In 1974, Berger was a writer in residence at the University of Kansas, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Southampton College in 1975-1976. He lectured at Yale University in 1981 and 1982, and was a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, in 1982. Berger resided in New York City from 1948 to 1953, and lived the next twelve years in a town on the Hudson River. In subsequent years, he lived in London, Malibu, California, New York City again, Long Island, and then Mount Desert Island in Maine, before once more returning to the banks of the Hudson. He died on July 13, 2014, seven days before his 90th birthday.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(novelist)