Frederic Morton

Frederic Morton (October 5, 1924 – April 20, 2015) was an Austrian-born American writer.

Life

Born Fritz Mandelbaum in

Morton worked as a baker but began studying literature in 1949. He returned to Austria in 1962 to marry his fiancée, Marcia, whom he had met at college.

From 1959, Morton worked as a columnist for several American periodicals^[

• The Hound (Dodd, Mead, 1947) Intercollegiate Literary Fellowship Prize Novels
• Asphalt and Desire (Harcourt Brace, 1952) novel
• The Witching Ship (Random House, 1960) novel
• The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait (
  LCCN 98-14815
• The Schatten Affair (Atheneum, 1965) novel
• Snow Gods (New American Library, 1968) novel
• An Unknown Woman (Little Brown, 1976) novel
• A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888–1889 (Little Brown, 1979) (
  ISBN 0-14-005667-X ) reprinted by the Folio Society
  2006
• The Forever Street (Doubleday, 1984) (
  ISBN 0-7432-5220-9
  ) novel
• Chocolate: An Illustrated History (Random House, 1986) (
  ISBN 978-0-517-55765-5
  ) written with his wife Marcia
• Crosstown Sabbath: A Street Journey Through History (Grove Press, 1987) (
  ISBN 978-0-394-56070-0
  )
• Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913-1914 (Scribner's, 1989) (
  ISBN 0-306-81021-2
  )
• Runaway Waltz (Simon & Schuster, 2005) (
  ISBN 0-7432-2539-2 ) memoir

• 1963: Author of the Year (Anti-Defamation League)
• 1980: Title of "Professor"
• 2001: Gold Medal of Vienna
• 2003:
  Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class^[3]

External links

• Complete bibliography (Literaturhaus Wien)
• New York Times | The Memories of a Jew, Now Honored by Vienna (By Richard Bernstein, June 28, 2003)
• L.A. Times | On Thelemanngasse (By Frederic Morton, February 20, 2006)
• Frederic Morton at Library of Congress, with 26 library catalog records