Mordecai Roshwald | |
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Born |
Drohobycz, Poland |
May 26, 1921
Died | March 19, 2015 Silver Spring, Maryland |
(aged 93)
Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921, - March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Born in Drohobycz, Poland, Roshwald later emigrated to Israel. His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. He is also the author of A Small Arrmageddon (1962) and Dreams and Nightmares: Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction (2008).
Roshwald was a "professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."
He lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States at the time of his death.