Mordecai Roshwald
American writer
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| Intro | American writer | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Writer Novelist | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 26 May 1921, Poland | |
| Death | 19 March 2015Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.A. (aged 93 years) | |
| Star sign | Gemini |
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Biography
Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921, - March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Born in Drohobycz, Poland, Roshwald later emigrated to Israel. His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. He is also the author of A Small Arrmageddon (1962) and Dreams and Nightmares: Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction (2008).
Roshwald was a "professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."
He lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States at the time of his death.