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4 unusual facts about Leonard Wolf


Brad Schreiber

Schreiber majored in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University, where his prose writing was influenced by studying poetry writing with Leonard Wolf.

Der Nister

Di mishpokhe Mashber ("The Family Mashber") was translated into Hebrew in 1962, into French in 1984, into English by Leonard Wolf in 1987, and into German in 1990.

Henry O. Talle

After the 1956 elections (in which Talle prevailed over Democrat Leonard Wolf but received only 52.3 percent of the vote), he was the ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee.

Leonard Wolf

He is known for his authoritative annotated editions of classic gothic horror novels, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Phantom of the Opera, and critical works on the topic, as well as Yiddish translations of works ranging from those of Isaac Bashevis Singer to Winnie the Pooh.



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