Louis Begley

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1991
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Jack Dana

1 - Killer, Come Hither (Apr-2015)
2 - Kill and Be Killed (Apr-2016)
3 - Killer's Choice (Aug-2019)

Schmidt

1 - About Schmidt (Sep-1996)
2 - Schmidt Steps Back (Mar-2012)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Wartime Lies

    "Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."THE WALL STREET JOURNALAs the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existe...

  • The Man Who Was Late

    "Begley writes with a contemplative wisdom that permeates his work....[He] has captured some of the wispy melancholy of midcentury fiction, and this feat in itself is mellifluous to both ear and spirit."THE BOSTON GLOBEA man without a country or fami...

  • As Max Saw It

    "[A] perfectly constructed novel.... The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charl...

  • About Schmidt

    Schmidt - 1

    As he tries to make his life habitable again--after the devastating loss of his wife--retired lawyer Albert Schmidt finds the possibility of regeneration in a new love the old "Schmidtie" would never have dreamt of. Set in the Hamptons and Mahnattan,...

  • Mistler's Exit

    Thomas Mistler has always thought himself "a happy man, as the world goes." A scion of old money, he made his own fortune in advertising and is now poised to sell the company he founded for a fabulous price. But when a medical examination reveals the...

  • Schmidt Delivered

    Recently widowed, Albert Schmidt has triumphantly rediscovered domestic bliss in the Hamptons with Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress who is younger than his daughter. Schmidt is content with keeping his own hours and steering his own course, even...

  • Shipwreck

    A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and ...

  • Matters of Honor

    At Harvard in the early 1950s, three seemingly mismatched freshmen are thrown together: Sam, who fears that his fine New England name has been tarnished by his father's drinking and his mother's affairs; Archie, an affable army brat whose veneer of s...

  • Schmidt Steps Back

    Schmidt - 2

    When we last saw Albert Schmidt Esq. ("Schmidtie" to all near and dear), he had been expelled from paradise: his love Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress forty years his junior, had taken up with a blond giant nearer her age and possibly the father of ...



  • Memories of a Marriage

  • Killer, Come Hither

    Jack Dana - 1

    From the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a sly, pacey international thriller ranging from the suites of an elite Manhattan law firm to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough and tumble western plains of Brazil. Jack Dan...

  • Kill and Be Killed

    Jack Dana - 2

    Master stylist Begley continues the story of Jack Dana, the former Marine Corps officer turned novelist whose quest to avenge his murdered uncle takes a new, more dangerous turn. The man who brutally murdered Uncle Harry is dead. In an effort to ...

  • Killer's Choice

    Jack Dana - 3

    Marine-turned-novelist Jack Dana is back in Louis Begley's most intense, suspenseful, and deadly adventure yet. With the death of his nemesis, corrupt business mogul Abner Brown, retired Marine Jack Dana thought he could finally return to his ...

  • The New Life of Hugo Gardner

    Beloved author Louis Begley returns to the monied halls of the Upper East Side with a sharp new comedy of manners. Divorced after decades of comfortable marriage, retired journalist Hugo Gardner sets out to explore paths not travelled.After four deca...

Award-Winning Books by Louis Begley

Wartime Lies
1992 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award -- Fiction
1992 PEN Literary Award -- Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Louis Begley has published 14 books.

Louis Begley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The New Life of Hugo Gardner, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Louis Begley, Wartime Lies, was published in May 1991.

Yes. Louis Begley has 2 series.
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