Daniel Fuchs (June 25, 1909 - July 26, 1993) was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist. He was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant. He wrote three early novels--Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and Low Company (1937)--the earlier two of these depicting Jewish life in Williamsburg, the last focusing on various ethnic types in B...
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Daniel Fuchs (June 25, 1909 - July 26, 1993) was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist. He was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant. He wrote three early novels--Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and Low Company (1937)--the earlier two of these depicting Jewish life in Williamsburg, the last focusing on various ethnic types in Brighton Beach. A single volume of these three novels, entitled The Brooklyn Novels, was published in 2006 by Black Sparrow Books, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher. His style is naturalistic and sincere, with occasional dips into the sardonic (Summer in Williamsburg) and the solemn (Low Company). Fuchs' point of view is always sceptical and independent--in the manner of a Brooklyn Chekhov--and the author's limited reputation (as well as, perhaps, his reduced literary ambition) are plausibly ascribed to the fact that after three fine...
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