Sol Yurick

Solomon Yurick

Born January 18, 1925· Manhattan, New York, US

† Died January 5, 2013

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Emerging from a working-class Jewish household in New York, he served as an Army surgical technician during World War II before earning a literature degree at NYU and a master’s in English from Brooklyn College, later working as a city welfare investigator. His literary breakthrough came with the 1965 novel that fused a classic Greek odyssey with the gritty reality of New York gang life, a work th… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources