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Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin, whose novels include Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War and Freddy and Fredericka, is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute who writes the regular "Parthian Shot" column for The Claremont Review of Books.

Helprin's writing has appeared in The New Yorker for two decades. He has written on politics and aesthetics for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, National Review, The American Heritage, The Wall Street Journal (of which he is a contributing editor), The New York Times, and many other publications here and abroad.

Raised on the Hudson and in the British West Indies, Helprin holds degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford. He served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force.

A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a former Guggenheim Fellow, Helprin has been awarded the National Jewish Book Award and the Prix de Rome.

His website is http://www.markhelprin.com.

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Articles on this Site

Rich Country, Strong Arms

Posted on August 4, 2008 in Claremont Review of Books

Make the Sudan an Offer It Can't Refuse

Posted on June 13, 2008 in Claremont Review of Books

Helprin on China

Posted on May 13, 2008 in The Wall Street Journal

McCain Mutiny

Posted on April 18, 2008 in Claremont Review of Books

The New Soft Underbelly of Europe

Posted on February 4, 2008 in Claremont Review of Books

A Rare Alignment

Posted on October 3, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

© Inequity

Posted on June 8, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

China as a Rising Nuclear Power

Posted on March 14, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

Helprin on China as a Nuclear Threat

Posted on March 5, 2007 in Washington Post

The Worst Generation Faces the Greatest Peril

Posted on January 31, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

The Literary Tenor of the Times

Posted on January 26, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

The War in Lebanon

Posted on October 16, 2006 in Claremont Review of Books

Remembering 9/11

Posted on September 11, 2006 in Writings

Migrant Thoughts

Posted on June 5, 2006 in Claremont Review of Books

Constitution or Tyranny

Posted on March 24, 2006 in Claremont Review of Books

The Democratic Peace

Posted on January 24, 2006 in Claremont Review of Books

Herd Animals

Posted on October 19, 2005 in Claremont Review of Books

Let Us Count the Ways

Posted on September 10, 2004 in Claremont Review of Books

War in the Absence of Strategic Clarity

Posted on September 17, 2003 in Claremont Review of Books

Defend Civilization Itself

Posted on July 26, 2002 in Writings

We Beat Hitler, We Can Vanquish This Foe Too

Posted on September 12, 2001 in Writings

The Uses of Honor

Posted on March 6, 2000 in Writings

Cape and Sword

Posted on December 17, 1999 in Writings

Contrivance: A Theory of Everything, Signifying Nothing

Posted on November 30, 1999 in Writings

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