Tom Reuss - American writer, historian and journalist
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Tom Reiss was born on May 5, 1964, in the city of New York, United States of America. He spent the first years of his life in Washington Heights in Manhattan, and then in San Antonio and Dallas, Texas, where his father worked as a neurosurgeon. After that, his family moved to West Massachusetts, where he spent the rest of his childhood and youth in New England. He attended Hotchkiss School, then studied at Harvard, where he had already shown his creative abilities, wrote in a student newspaper.
The personal life of the writer
Tom Reuss currently lives in New York. After graduating from Harvard University (located in the United States of America, in the city of Cambridge) in 1987, Reiss changed many different professions of interest, working temporarily as a nurse, performing auxiliary functions in medical practice; a bartender serving visitors at a bar, an entrepreneur (small business), a teacher and, in Japan, a member of a rock band and an actor in television commercials and gangster films.
In one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine, he returned to Texas, studied at the US Public Research University - the University of Houston under the supervision of Professor Donald Bartelmey, an American postmodern writer famous for his short stories. One of the largest (along with Pincher, Bart and Dunlavy) representatives of the American "school of black humor." The unsurpassed master of the short form of the story. When Donald Barthelemy died in the summer of one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine, Tom Reiss left Texas and went to Germany to start exploring his family’s history, and was fascinated by the rapidly changing political and social situation in East Germany after the Berlin Wall fell. To effectively search for documents and communicate with German citizens, I learned the German language. He also used his German to better understand his family members who had fled from Nazi Europe in the thirties of the last century. His grandparents were killed by the Nazis after being deported from Paris to the Polish concentration camp Auschwitz, but his mother survived, she was hidden as a child in France during World War II. While in Germany, Tom Reiss also interviewed the neo-Nazi youth of East Germany in an attempt to find out why they returned to the political ideals of their ancestors.
Creation
In one thousand nine hundred and ninety-sixth, the publishing house "Random House", the largest and perhaps the most well-known publishing house in the world, publishing books in English, published a book by Tom Reuss "Leaders-ex; Former Neo-Nazi memoirs". This publishing house is also a kind of “brand for authors”, providing and defending their rights at the highest level, publishing in Random House is extremely honorable and beneficial for the author, both beginner and famous. This is the first major book by Tom Reiss, “Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi, ” and it became the first internal exposition of the European neo-Nazi movement.
Two thousand and fifth year - Tom Reiss is the author of the book "Orientalist: revealing the secret of a strange and dangerous life." The biographical novel is dedicated to Leo Nusimbaum, a Baku Jew who converted to Islam, an adventurer and writer who published his books under the pseudonyms Kurban Said and Esad Bey. His main novel, Ali and Nino, a bestseller of the thirties of the last century, survived a rebirth in the seventies and was translated into forty languages of the world. However, before the investigation of Tom Riis, the real name of the person who was hiding under the pseudonym Kurban Said standing on the cover of the book remained unknown. On the example of one life, "full of secrets and dangers", Reiss describes the collapse of the Russian Empire, the fate of emigration in Istanbul and Berlin, the emergence of fascism in Germany, the Great Depression in the United States of America, that is, in fact, creates its own version of the history of the first half of the twentieth century. The book will be doubly interesting for the Russian reader, since it touches on the sore topic of the national policy of the Russian Empire in the Transcaucasus and provides a fascinating example of the life of a Russian European who has established his own relations with the Muslim world and has accepted this world as his own.
Two thousand and twelve years old - Tom Reiss is the author of the biography of the Napoleonic army general Thomas-Alexander Dumas, the father of the famous writer: "The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the true Count of Monte Cristo." In this book, Tom Reiss gives an idea of slavery and the life of a person of mixed race during the French colonial empire. He also tells how Dumas' son, writer Alexander Dumas, looked at his father, who inspired some of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Currently published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker.
