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Fred Waitzkin

Biography

Fred Waitzkin

Fred Waitzkin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1943. He went to Kenyon College and did graduate study at New York University. He is the author of SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, DEEP WATER BLUES, STRANGE LOVE, MORTAL GAMES, THE LAST MARLIN, THE DREAM MERCHANT and ANYTHING IS GOOD. His work has appeared in Esquire, New York magazine, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast, among others. He lives in Manhattan.

Fred Waitzkin

Books by Fred Waitzkin

Anything Is Good
by Fred Waitzkin - Fiction

Ralph Silverman was a foreign film buff, a victim of bullies and a boy genius. He held long conversations with his pet parakeet and spent countless hours on a computer, creating mesmerizing music and solving problems in philosophy. He was a friend of great scholars and the son of a wealthy outer-borough businessman with shady associates and a secret second family. And, as he begins to take over the story from the narrator, Ralph finds himself in South Florida, physically abused and expelled into a frightening world of the unhoused --- with a broken pair of glasses, no money and no shoes.

The Dream Merchant
by Fred Waitzkin - Fiction

Born into abject poverty, Jim goes from door-to-door salesman to international mogul, the father of the pyramid scheme. To escape his past, as well as government investigators, he leaves the country to become the leader of a lawless and predatory gold-mining operation in the Brazilian Amazon. Worn down by age and a lifetime of shady enterprise, his world suddenly changes when he meets a beautiful, young Israeli woman with dark ambitions of her own.