During the early 1950s, he worked at the Voice of America in New York and later became an official at the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, an organization secretly funded by the CIA. The committee, a loosely organized group of leading intellectuals, opposed ideological extremism from both the left and right.
Fellow, Manhattan Institute.
Author, publisher Stein and Day 1962-1989.
His father was a jewelry designer, his mother an interpreter who eventually worked for the United Nations.
Went to high school with James Baldwin at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York where they were staff members on the school literary journal.
Was a best-selling novelist of nine books who later developed software programs for writers, including WritePro.
Best known as the publisher of major works by James Baldwin, Che Guevara, David Frost, Jack Higgins, Budd Schulberg, Marilyn Monroe, F. Lee Bailey and Elia Kazan; first at Beacon Press and then at his own publishing house Stein & Day.
Entered college at 15, served in the Army during World War II, then graduated in 1948 from the City College of New York. He received a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1949.
Wrote two plays in the 1950s that had short Broadway runs, "Napoleon" and "A Shadow of My Enemy.".