Richard Kluger

A native of Paterson, N.J., Richard Kluger grew up in Manhattan, graduated from Princeton University, where he chaired The Daily Princetonian , and as a young journalist worked for The Wall Street Journal , the pre-Murdoch New York Post and Forbes magazine before becoming the last literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune . When the Tribune folded, Kluger entered the book industry, rising to executive editor of Simon and Schuster, editor-in-chief of Atheneum, and publisher of Charterhouse...See more

A native of Paterson, N.J., Richard Kluger grew up in Manhattan, graduated from Princeton University, where he chaired The Daily Princetonian , and as a young journalist worked for The Wall Street Journal , the pre-Murdoch New York Post and Forbes magazine before becoming the last literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune . When the Tribune folded, Kluger entered the book industry, rising to executive editor of Simon and Schuster, editor-in-chief of Atheneum, and publisher of Charterhouse Books. Of Kluger's seven novels previous to HAMLET'S CHILDREN, the most widely read have been Members of the Tribe , about which the Chicago Tribune wrote, "This excellent novel is a sobering story . . . filled with anguish and a sense of injustice, of hopes carefully nurtured and casually betrayed," and The Sheriff of Nottingham , which Time called "richly imagined and beautifully written." He also co-authored two novels with his wife Phyllis, a fiber artist and herself the author of two books on needlework design. The Klugers live in Berkeley. See less