Paul Horvitz

I've been a professional writer and editor since the resignation of Richard Nixon, but in a single non-fiction genre: newspaper journalism. Though I always loved storytelling, my profession demanded absolute adherence to veracity. It seems I have now leapt over the boundary to verisimilitude. I wrote or edited for the Minneapolis Tribune, The New York Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer before moving to Paris to join the International Herald Tribune, a beloved paper that, at the time, was owned by the Times and The Washington Post but was dedicated to the economy of language. I worked as a copy editor, Sports Editor, U.S. Correspondent, and Deputy Managing Editor, alternating postings in Paris and Washington. Later, I was a Senior Editor at Bloomberg Markets magazine. Today, I tell stories for fun and to learn from the research that most good writing requires — also, to watch my characters take form and evolve as they face life’s inevitable joys and sorrows. My first novel, "Agent of Intrusion," was about a young hacker caught up in a web of industrial espionage by nation states. My second novel, "The Tinker's Son," is a work of historical fiction that illuminates the painful moral choices faced by a young rabbinical student in Imperial Russia after he is drafted into the Tsar’s army. Kirkus Reviews called it "a spirited novel of obligation and ethics in a time of brutality." My latest work is "Sanctuary Thirteen," a satirical novella about a future neo-Stalinist America. It was written between the 2024 election and the inauguration of you-know-who.