David Evanier is an American author. He is working on a biography of
Morton Sobell
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.
Thomas Mallon
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wrote in ''
Newsday
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'' that Evanier's ''Red Love'' is "an irreverent novel about the case of
Julius Rosenberg
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and
Ethel Rosenberg
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" that was likely to "be greeted with howls of anger in all the predictable places. ''
The Nation
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'' will be appalled, the ''
Village Voice
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'' revolted."
Bibliography
*''The One-Star Jew'' (North Point Press, 1983)
*''Red Love'' (Scribner's, 1991)
*''Making the Wiseguys Weep : The Jimmy Roselli Story'' (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998)
*''The Great Kisser'' (Rager, 2007)
*''
Woody: The Biography'' (St. Martin's Press, 2015)
References
External links
Website
Jewish American writers
American biographers
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American Jews
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