Discipline: Literature

Maurice Samuels

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1920
Maurice Samuels (1895–1972) was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator, and lecturer. A Jewish intellectual and writer, he is best known for his work You Gentiles, published in 1924. Most of his work concerns Judaism or the Jew's role in history and modern society, but he also wrote more conventional fiction, such as The Web of Lucifer, which takes place during the Borgias' rule of Renaissance Italy, and the fantasy science-fiction novel The Devil that Failed. He and his work received acclaim within the Jewish community during his lifetime, including the 1944 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his non-fiction work, The World of Sholom Aleichem. Samuel also wrote the nonfiction King Mob under the pseudonym "Frank K. Notch."