Born at Jersey City before the war, Brewster Chamberlin decided early in his life to become a novelist and poet. This romantic notion did not coincide with reality for long stretch...view moreBorn at Jersey City before the war, Brewster Chamberlin decided early in his life to become a novelist and poet. This romantic notion did not coincide with reality for long stretches of that life, but did result in a great mass of written material some of which did not find its way into the dustbin. He and his wife, Lynn-Marie Smith, had the good fortune to live for a year in a village in the South of France where he wrote among other things the first version of Radovic’s Dilemma. After teaching at several universities in the United States and Germany and working as a historian/archivist for much of his adult life at historical institutes and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, he moved with Lynn-Marie to the sub-tropical island of Key West, Florida, where no winters mar the seascape and snow has never fallen in human history. Here he has devoted his time and energies to the creation of a four volume novel about the city of Berlin in the 20th century, the third volume of which takes place in Key West and Manhattan.view less