in the 1960s, Kluger left book publishing and devoted six years, starting in 1968, to researching and writing Simple Justice (1976), an 800-page history of the Supreme Court’s most famous 20th century decision, Brown v. Moved by the social upheavals sweeping across the U.S. When the Tribune went out of business in 1966, Kluger entered the book industry, serving as executive editor of Simon and Schuster, editor-in-chief of Atheneum, and publisher of Charterhouse Books, his own imprint in conjunction with David McKay Co.Īs a moonlighting author, Kluger published two novels, When the Bough Breaks and National Anthem, satirizing American social mores, to friendly reviews. After launching and operating a weekly newspaper in Rockland County, N.Y., for two years before selling it, he worked as a reporter for the New York Post and Forbes magazine and then became the literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune and its Book Week review section. He withdrew from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where he had been campus correspondent for The New York Times, to join The Wall Street Journal as a copy editor and in 1957 married the former Phyllis Schlain of South Orange, N.J. He graduated from the Horace Mann School and Princeton University, where he won honors as an English literature major, but his principal interest was the undergraduate newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, of which he served as the chairman in 1955-56. His newest book, Beethoven’s Tenth, which he subtitles “A Musical Mystery,” is scheduled for publication in md-2018.īorn in Paterson, N.J., in September 1934, Kluger is the son of David (a New York businessman) and Ida Kluger and grew up in Manhattan, living with his mother and older brother Alan after his parents divorced when he was seven years old.
Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision outlawing racially segregated public schools, and Ashes to Ashes, a critical history of the cigarette industry and its lethal toll on the public’s health, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1997. His two best known works are Simple Justice, generally regarded as the definitive account of the U.S. Ichard Kluger is an American author who, after working as a New York journalist and publishing executive, turned in mid-career to writing widely lauded books on U.S.
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