A memoir, “The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki published by Princeton University Press in 2001, recounts the unlikely story of how a Polish Jewish escapee from the Warsaw Ghetto ...

NEW YORK — Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who fled Poland to become a powerful cultural figure in postwar Germany as a distinguished literary critic and a popular television ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki was Germany's most influential postwar literary critic and a survivor of the Holocaust. The author of almost 50 books. including works on Mann, Goethe, Grass and Brecht, he was ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany’s leading arbiter of literary taste and champion of many Jewish-German writers, died on Wednesday at age 93. Born in Poland, the Jewish Reich-Ranicki faced anti-Semitism ...

This is the first part of a two-part tribute to the late Polish-born, German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who died September 18, 2013. “Thinkers are valued in this country especially when ...

The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki Marcel Reich-Ranicki Weidenfeld & Nicholson £25, pp405 Buy it at a discount at BOL To imagine a British Marcel Reich-Ranicki, you would have to ...

The renowned literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki died on Wednesday in Frankfurt at age 93. He was born 1920 in Włocławek in northern Poland. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, photo Friedrich, Brigitte / ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany's most influential postwar literary critic, has died aged 93. Reich-Ranicki, frequently referred to as the Literaturpapst, or "pope of literature", had been diagnosed ...

For decades, in print and on TV, Polish-Jewish literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki told Germans what to read. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief COLOGNE, Germany – Germany is mourning the death ...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who grew up in Poland and Nazi Germany, survived the Warsaw ghetto and went on to become postwar Germany’s best-known literary critic, has died. He was 93. Reich-Ranicki died ...

Born: June 2, 1920; Died: September 18, 2013. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who has died aged 93, was an influential literary critic for more than 50 years. The composer Jean Sibelius once said "Whoever put ...

In a country uneasy in its own identity, Reich-Ranicki’s folksy, bluntly-expressed opinions, grounded in an encyclopedic grasp of European literature, were capable of making or breaking the ...