Herbert Lieberman | |
Birth Name: | Herbert Henry Lieberman |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1933 |
Death Place: | New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
Nationality: | American |
Education: | City College of New York (AB) Columbia University (AM) |
Spouse: | Judith Barsky |
Children: | 1 |
Parent: | Abraham Lieberman (father) |
Herbert Henry Lieberman (September 22, 1933 – May 30, 2023) was an American mystery/crime novelist and playwright. Liberman's mother was an orphan who fled Romania and came over to America on the Lusitania. She married Abraham Lieberman, of New Rochelle, New York.
He received his AB from City College of New York and his AM from Columbia University. In 1977 he won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière's International Prize for City of the Dead.[1] He is a former managing editor of the Reader's Digest Book Club.[2]
Lieberman married Judith Barsky, and they have one daughter, and twin granddaughters.
Lierberman, as a teenager, used to work at a soda pop shop. When he grew up, he worked at the New York Reader's Digest Book Club. Currently, he lives in California with his wife, and his wire-haired dachshund, Henry.
His horror novels were based upon nightmares which he had. Lieberman died on May 30, 2023, at the age of 89.[3]