Biography
Hillel Halkin was born in New York two months before the outbreak of World War II. He is the son of Abraham S. Halkin, a professor of Jewish literature, history and culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1970 he made aliyah to Israel, settling in Zichron Yaakov. He studied English Literature at Columbia University.
Halkin is married to Marcia and the father of two daughters.
Read more about this topic: Hillel Halkin
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)