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Stephen Koch

Stephen Koch
Stephen Koch is the author of two novels and many books of nonfiction on subjects ranging from Andy Warhol to the Second World War. After being chairman of the Creative Writing Division in the School of the Arts at Columbia, he wrote a classic text on writing, The Modern Library Writers’ Workshop. The director of The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC., he lives with his wife in New York, and has one daughter. His book Hitler’s Pawn: The Jewish Boy Who Triggered the Holocaust is out now.


The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

On the Assassination of Ernst vom Rath by 17-Year-Old Herschel Grynszpan
January 31, 2019  By Stephen Koch
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