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His Master's Voice
As the war rages in Europe, a disgruntled faction within Sigmud R. Safer's House of Israel congregation threatens to break away from the old timers and start a less stringent congregation of its own. By the author of Somewhere Else.
337 pages, Hardcover
First published March 17, 1992
About the author
Robert Kotlowitz
13 books2 followersNovelist, editor and television executive.
Mr. Kotlowitz was born on Nov. 21, 1924, in Madison, N.J., and raised in Baltimore, where his parents, Max and Debra Kotlowitz, moved when he was a child. His father was a cantor.
Among the last cohort drafted in World War II, Mr. Kotlowitz was part of an ill-fated American assault against German troops in France after D-Day, which he described in a 1995 article in The New York Times Magazine and in “Before Their Time: A Memoir,” published in 1999.
“In this engagement, which lasted 12 hours,” he wrote in The Times, “all but three men in the third platoon, Company C, 104th Regiment, were lost. I was one of the survivors.”
After the war, Mr. Kotlowitz graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where he studied piano. Instead of becoming a concert pianist, though, he decided to write novels. That did not become his full-time work either — he worked as an editor at Discovery magazine, a publicity manager for RCA Victor Records, and a contributor and editor at Harper’s and other magazines before joining Channel 13 — but he did publish four novels: “Somewhere Else” (1972), “The Boardwalk,” (1977), “Sea Changes” (1986) and “His Master’s Voice” (1992).
Mr. Kotlowitz was born on Nov. 21, 1924, in Madison, N.J., and raised in Baltimore, where his parents, Max and Debra Kotlowitz, moved when he was a child. His father was a cantor.
Among the last cohort drafted in World War II, Mr. Kotlowitz was part of an ill-fated American assault against German troops in France after D-Day, which he described in a 1995 article in The New York Times Magazine and in “Before Their Time: A Memoir,” published in 1999.
“In this engagement, which lasted 12 hours,” he wrote in The Times, “all but three men in the third platoon, Company C, 104th Regiment, were lost. I was one of the survivors.”
After the war, Mr. Kotlowitz graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where he studied piano. Instead of becoming a concert pianist, though, he decided to write novels. That did not become his full-time work either — he worked as an editor at Discovery magazine, a publicity manager for RCA Victor Records, and a contributor and editor at Harper’s and other magazines before joining Channel 13 — but he did publish four novels: “Somewhere Else” (1972), “The Boardwalk,” (1977), “Sea Changes” (1986) and “His Master’s Voice” (1992).
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