Irvin Faust

Irvin Faust (June 11, 1924 – July 24, 2012) was an American author and educator.

Early life and career Faust was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Morris and Pauline (née Henschel) Faust.

He served in the Army infantry during World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters and helped liberate Nazi concentration camps.

Attending school on the G.I. Bill, He later earned two master's degrees and a Ph.D. from Teacher's College of Columbia University.

His first major publication, Roar Lion Roar and Other Stories (1965), reviewed excellent reviews. Stanley Kauffmann described the opening the book “like clicking on a switch: at once we hear the electric hum of talent.”

His ill health reduced his writing in his later years, but he published a short story in 2008.

Personal life Faust met Jean Satterthwaite at a Christmas party in New York City. They married on August 29, 1959 and remained married until Faust's death in 2012.

Death

Faust died from pneumonia following a series of strokes.

Selected bibliography Novels

The Steagle (Random House, 1966) The File on Stanley Patton Buchta (Random House, 1970) Willy Remembers (Arbor House, 1971) Foreign Devils (Arbor House, 1973) A Star in the Family (Doubleday, 1975) Newsreel (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980) Jim Dandy (Carroll & Graf, 1994)

Short fiction

Roar Lion, Roar and Other Stories (Random House, 1965) The Year of the Hot Jock and Other Stories (Dutton, 1985)

Other

Entering Angel's World: A Student-Centered Casebook (Columbia University, 1963)

Stories + Title Publication Collected in "Into the Green Night" The Carleton Miscellany (Winter 1961) Roar Lion, Roar "Jake Bluffstein and Adolph Hitler" The Carleton Miscellany (Spring 1962) "The World's Fastest Human" The Transatlantic Review 14 (Autumn 1963) "Roar Lion Roar" San Francisco Review Annual 1 (1963) "Philco Baby" The Paris Review 31 (Winter-Spring 1964) "Googs in Lambarene" The Carleton Miscellany 5.2 (Spring 1964) "The Dalai Lama of Harlem" The Sewanee Review 72.2 (Spring 1964) The Year of the Hot Jock "Wobbilobby Mobbays" The Transatlantic Review 17 (Autumn 1964) from The Steagle "The Madras Rumble" The Saturday Evening Post (November 14, 1964) Roar Lion, Roar "Miss Dorothy Thompson's American Eaglet" Roar Lion, Roar and Other Stories (1964) "Justice for Ladejinsky" "The Duke Imlach Story" "Operation Buena Vista" The Paris Review 35 (Fall 1965) The Year of the Hot Jock "The Double Snapper" Esquire (December 1965) "Simon Girty Go Ape" The Transatlantic Review 21 (Summer 1966) "Gary Dis-Donc" The Northwest Review (Summer 1967) "Welcome to the Fort" New York (March 30, 1970) from The File on Stanley Patton Buchta "Melanine and the Purple People Eaters" The Atlantic (December 1981) The Year of the Hot Jock "The Year of the Hot Jock" Confrontation (Spring 1985) "Bunny Berigan in the Elephants' Graveyard" Action/Image (Spring 1985) "Bar Bar Bar" The Year of the Hot Jock and Other Stories (1985) "Action at Vicksburg" New Black Mask Quarterly 5 (Summer 1986) "The Empire State Is Number Three?" Confrontation (Spring-Summer 1990) "Artie and Benny" Michigan Quarterly Review 28.2 (Spring 1989) "The Blue Seats" Confrontation (Spring-Summer 1990) "Bootsie Wants Harvard" Four Quarters (Fall 1991) "Let Me Off Uptown" Fiction 10.1/2 (1991) "Enemy Propaganda" Confrontation (Spring-Summer 1992) "The Combat Zone" Descant 33.1 (1993) "Black Auxiliaries" The Literary Review (Summer 1994) "Paradise" Confrontation (Spring-Summer 1996) "Starring Nohj Anyew" The Literary Review 44.3 (Spring 2001) "B-17" The Literary Review 46.3 (Spring 2003) "Anna May Wong Was Chinese?" Confrontation 88/89 (Fall 2004-Winter 2005) "Scott Fitzgerald Has Left the Garden of Allah" The Literary Review 51.2 (Winter 2008)