He has also written three novels--
The Second Stone (1963),
Back to China (1965), and
The Messengers Will Come No More (1974)--and three collections of short fiction--
Pull Down Vanity and Other Stories (1962),
The Last Jew in America (1966), and
Nude Croquet (1969)--but his reputation rests almost exclusively on his critical work.
A Jew from Newark, New Jersey, Leslie Aaron Fiedler was born there on 8 March 1917 to Jacob J. Fiedler, a pharmacist, and Lillian Rosenstrauch Fiedler. After earning a B.A. from New York University in 1938, Fiedler went to the University of Wisconsin, where he received an M.A. in 1939 and a Ph.D. in 1941. On 6 October 1939 he married Margaret Ann Shipley. They had six children--Kurt, Eric, Michael, Deborah, Jenny, and Miriam--and were divorced in 1972. In February 1973 Fiedler married Sally Andersen, the mother of two children, Soren and Eric Andersen.
Fiedler went west to teach at the University of Montana, Missoula, as an assistant professor in 1941. The next year he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Serving as a Japanese interpreter, he interrogated prisoners of war after the battle of Iwo Jima and spent time in Occupied Japan before his discharge, as a lieutenant junior grade, in 1946.
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