BiographyArthur R.G. Solmssen was born in New York City in 1928. He spent his early childhood in Berlin, and grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He served in the Regular Army after World War II, graduated from Harvard College in 1950, and from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1953. He joined a big Philadelphia law firm that year, and has been with it ever since. Little Brown published Solmssen's first novel, Rittenhouse Square, in 1968. That and three other novels, Alexander's Feast, The Comfort Letter, and Takeover Time tell about the men and women in and around the Philadelphia law firm of Conyers & Dean. . Solmssen's best-known work, translated into every European language plus Turkish, is A Princess in Berlin. Arthur Solmssen's hobby is historical research. One result is The Wife of Shore, a novel about England at the time of Richard III. |
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