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Mark Helprin


Born
in Ossining, New York, The United States
June 28, 1947

Website

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Dante, Jennifer Cervantes, Henry Fielding ...more


Mark Helprin belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend. As many have observed and as Time Magazine has phrased it, “He lights his own way.” His three collections of short stories (A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Ellis Island and Other Stories, and The Pacific and Other Stories), six novels (Refiner's Fire, Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Memoir From Antproof Case, Freddy and Fredericka and, In Sunlight and In Shadow), and three children's books (Swan Lake, A City in Winter, and The Veil of Snows, all illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg), speak eloquently for themselves and are remarkable throughout for the sustained beauty and power of their language. ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.79 · 61,333 ratings · 8,721 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors
Winter's Tale
3.51 avg rating — 28,803 ratings — published 1983 — 89 editions
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A Soldier of the Great War
4.33 avg rating — 7,682 ratings — published 1991 — 46 editions
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Paris in the Present Tense
4.04 avg rating — 4,854 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions
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Freddy and Fredericka
3.78 avg rating — 3,989 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions
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In Sunlight and in Shadow
3.54 avg rating — 4,076 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions
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Memoir from Antproof Case
4.01 avg rating — 2,905 ratings — published 1995 — 23 editions
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The Oceans and the Stars
4.46 avg rating — 1,986 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions
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The Pacific and Other Stories
4.10 avg rating — 1,369 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions
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Refiner's Fire
3.99 avg rating — 1,182 ratings — published 1977 — 26 editions
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Swan Lake
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4.12 avg rating — 1,113 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions
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Series by Mark Helprin

Swan Lake A City in Winter The Veil of Snows
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“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
tags: beauty, horse, innocence, truth
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“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
tags: love, music, power-of-music
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“As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
tags: believe, inspirational
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NOVEMBER FANTASY: This poll decides which 2 novels will move on to the run-off poll for our November Fantasy Book of the Month!

 
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