Benjamin Markovits is the author of YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS and PLAYING DAYS. He left an unpromising career as a professional basketball player to study Romanticism. Since then he has taught high-school English, worked at a left-wing cultural magazine and published seven novels, including a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron.

Books by Benjamin Markovits

Playing Days

by Benjamin Markovits - Fiction

In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits’ PLAYING DAYS is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author’s season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player’s estranged wife that ushers him into adulthood.

Imposture: A Novel

by Benjamin Markovits