author
Adolphe Danziger
1859–1959
A prolific writer with an unusually wide-ranging life, he moved between journalism, law, scholarship, and fiction over the course of a century. He is often remembered today for "The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter" and for his long, varied career as a man of letters.
2 Audiobooks
The last test
by Adolphe Danziger
The monk and the hangman's daughter
by Adolphe Danziger, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Voss
About the author
Adolphe Danziger De Castro (1859–1959), who also published under forms of his name such as Adolphe Danziger and Adolphe De Castro, was a Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer, and author of poems, novels, and short stories. Sources located during this search agree that he had a notably varied career and remained active across literary and public life for many decades.
He is best known in literary history for The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter, a work closely associated with his name, and bibliographic sources also link him with a substantial body of fiction and other writing. Archival and reference material found in this search also points to his involvement in political and civic circles, including correspondence connected with Theodore Roosevelt.
Some sources differ on a few biographical details, including aspects of his early life, so it is best to describe him in broad, well-supported terms: a long-lived, versatile author whose work touched literature, journalism, scholarship, and public affairs from the late 19th century well into the 20th.