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‘The Jump Artist’ and Marilyn

The Jump Artist, Austin Ratner’s prize-winning novel, is based on the early life of photographer Philippe Halsman, a Latvian Jew who was accused of killing his father while still a teenager, during a holiday in the Austrian Alps in 1928. … Continue reading


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Halsman: ‘The Jump Artist’

      The Jump Artist is a novel by Austin Ratner, based on the life of photographer Philippe Halsman. Originally published by indie press Bellevue in 2009, the novel won this year’s Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and … Continue reading


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