Herbert Henry Lieberman is a mystery/crime novelist and playwright. He received his AB from City College of New York

City College of New York

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 and his AM from Columbia University

Columbia University

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. In 1977 he won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

The Grand Prix de Littérature Policière is a French literary prize founded in 1948 by author and literary critic Maurice-Bernard Endrèbe. It is the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France...

's International Prize for City of the Dead.

Novels

• The Adventures of Dolphin Green (1967)
• Crawlspace (1971)
• The Eighth Square (1973)
• Brilliant Kids (1975)
• City of the Dead (1976)
• The Climate of Hell (1978)
• Night Call from a Distant Time Zone (1982)
• Nightbloom (1984)
• The Green Train (1986)
• Shadow Dancers (1989)
• Sandman, Sleep (1993)
• The Girl with the Botticelli Eyes (1996)
• The Concierge (1998)
• The Vagabond of Holmby Park (2003)

Plays Produced

"Matty, the Moron, and Madonna," directed by Jose Quintero at The Orpheum Theatre in Manhattan. It won the "University of Chicago Charles E. Sergel Drama Award."

"Tigers in Red Weather," produced at the "Tyrone Guthrie Theater," in Minneapolis
Herbert's mother, was an orphan who fled Romania, and came over to America in an ocean liner called the Lucitania. She married Abraham Lieberman, of New Rochelle, New York. Herbert married Judith Barsky, and they had one child named Zoe. And in 1998, Zoe had two twin girls of her own. Herbert, as a teenager, used to work at a soda pop shop. When he grew up, he worked at the " New York Reader's Digest Book Club." Currently, he lives in California with his wife, and his wirehaired-dachshund, Henry. He was called by famous Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, regarding his book about the horrific Nazi, Dr. Mengele.