Sol Yurick

Sol Yurick (1925 – ) is an American novelist. He was born to a working class family of politically active Jewish immigrants. At the age of 14, Yurick became disillusioned with politics after the Hitler-Stalin pact. He enlisted during World War II, where he trained as a surgical technician. He studied at New York University after the war, majoring in literature. After graduation, he took a job with the welfare department as a social investigator, a job he held until the early 1960s, when he took up writing full time. He was involved in Students for a Democratic Society and the anti-war movement at this time.

His first novel, "The Warriors", appeared in 1965. It combined a classical Greek story, "Anabasis (Xenophon)", with a fictional account of gang wars in New York City. It inspired the 1979 film of the same name. His other works include: Fertig (1966), "The Bag" (1968), "Someone Just Like You" (1972), "An Island Death, (1976), "Richard A" (1981), "Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel" (1985), Confession (1999). Yurick is still an active writer.

At the present time, Yurick is working on a project which analyzes all possible texts from a Marxist, evolutionist perspective.