John Tepper Marlin

John Tepper Marlin translated Erik Schaap’s Dutch biography of Walraven van Hall into English and edited the translation to clarify the meaning for an English-speaking audience and help the reader appreciate the structure of the book. He also prepared 750 endnotes so that anyone unfamiliar with Dutch history, geography, or language would have an immediate source for difficult references. He translated several Dutch poems into English poems. He first learned about the Resistance from his mother Hilda van Stockum, a second cousin of the hero of this book. Van Stockum wrote a popular children’s book, The Winged Watchman (Farrar, Straus & Company, 1962; reprinted by Bethlehem Books, 1995), in which Walraven appears as Resistance leader “Kees Kip.” Dr. Marlin earned degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and George Washington Universities. He served as chief economist for three New York City comptrollers and as a federal economist in Washington, D.C. under Johnson, Nixon, Obama, and Trump. He is a frequent speaker at alumni events and clubs, libraries, museums, and bookstores.