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Alex Halberstadt
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Alex Halberstadt

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Alex Halberstadt is the author of the award-winning Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ and The Paris Review. He is a two-time James Beard Award nominee and a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He works and lives in New York.

Books by Alex Halberstadt

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

In this luminous memoir of identity, exile, ancestry and reckoning, Alex Halberstadt returns to Russia to face a family history that still haunts him.

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