About Herbert Burkholz
Lived 1929 – 2006 (aged 76–77). Herbert Burkholz was a novelist.
Herbert Burkholz (December 9, 1929 – April 30, 2006 ) was a novelist and non-fiction author who also had a short tenure as a speechwriter at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
He penned ten novels. The Washington Post in reviewing his book Brain Damage said of it ..."He has given them a puzzler of fiendish cleverness"...
Burkholz also gained some notoriety in writing a series of spy thrillers with Clifford Irving, who spent seventeen months in jail for executing and publishing a false autobiography of the billionaire recluse Howard Hughes.
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Who was Herbert Burkholz?
Novelist (1929 – 2006)
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Herbert Burkholz was born in 1929.
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Herbert Burkholz died in 2006.
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Herbert Burkholz was a novelist.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Herbert Burkholz. https://biography.guide/herbert-burkholz/
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