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Mark Helprin.(journalist, author)

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One of America's most interesting novelists is also a conservative--and a crafter of powerful political rhetoric and commentary.

Novelist Mark Helprin, 54, is one of the brightest lights in American letters. His fiction includes A Soldier of the Great War, the story of an old man who imparts his life's wisdom to a young boy; Winter's Tale, a fairy-tale about New York City; Refiner's Fire, a semi-autobiographical adventure about a young man serving in the Israeli Army during the Yom Kippur War; and Memoir From Antproof Case, about an investment banker/bank robber from the World War II generation.

In 1996, Helprin made his public debut as a political ...

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