Gerald Kersh Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 23 pages of information about the life of Gerald Kersh.

Gerald Kersh Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 23 pages of information about the life of Gerald Kersh.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Gerald Kersh

Gerald Kersh entered the British world of letters in 1934 with an unusual work. Jews Without Jehovah purported to be a novel, but it included observations on some of the idiosyncracies of real members of the Kersh family--to the point that several of the author's uncles and a cousin filed libel suits against him. The book was withdrawn from sale after fewer than a hundred copies had been sold. Kersh persevered, however, and by the end of World War II he had more than a dozen books in print, short-story collections as well as novels. Indeed, in January 1944 Newsweek magazine reported that four of Kersh's books were on the London best- seller lists at the end of 1943.

Kersh wrote a total of twenty novels, two autobiographical reminiscences, and ten or more collections of short stories, depending upon how one counts collections including stories that have previously appeared in other...

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