Mordecai Roshwald

Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 – March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Born in Drohobycz, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine) to Jewish parents, Roshwald later made aliyah to the State of Israel.^[2] His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. He is also the author of A Small Armageddon (1962) and Dreams and Nightmares: Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction (2008).

Mordecai Roshwald
Born	Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (1921-05-26)May 26, 1921 Drohobycz, [Poland]
Died	March 19, 2015(2015-03-19) (aged 93)[1] Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Occupation(s)	Academic and writer

Roshwald was a "professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."^[3]

He lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the time of his death.

References

1. "Mordecai Roshwald Notice". The Washington Post. March 21, 2015. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
2. Mike Strozier, "An Interview With Author Dr. Mordecai Roshwald", Bookpleasures, November 22, 2009.
3. Mordecai Roshwald, Level 7 Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, edited and with a new foreword by David Seed, University of Wisconsin Press.

External links

• Mordecai Roshwald at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Mike Strozier, "An Interview With Author Dr. Mordecai Roshwald", Bookpleasures, November 22, 2009.