Welcome to my website! I hope you will find what you are looking for. You can read the first chapters of my novels, as well as some recent short stories and articles I've written. I've also got photographs and videos - and more biographical information about me than you could probably ever want!
The paperback of THE WARSAW ANAGRAMS has just been published in the USA! To see the cover, which is very different from the hardback, go here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Warsaw-Anagrams-Richard-Zimler/dp/1590208471/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335290720&sr=8-2
My new novel (in the USA) THE SEVENTH GATE will be published in the USA and Canada in mid-May! You can pre-order it here: http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Gate-Richard-Zimler/dp/1590207130/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
My new novel (in Great Britain and Australia) STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER comes out May 24. You can read a synopsis and the first chapter on my website by clicking on "Books" and then clicking on the cover of this novel. You can purchase a copy here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strawberry-Fields-Forever-Richard-Zimler/dp/1908129441
THE SEVENTH GATE just got a great pre-publication review in Publishers' Weekly. It was starred and boxed, which is a great honor. You can read the review here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1590207130 Please send the review to your friends in the English-speaking world. Thanks.
You can read the first chapter of the book here on my website. Just click on "Books" and then the cover of The Seventh Gate.
THE WARSAW ANAGRAMS has just been published in the Italy (Piemme Publishers) and Spain (Ediciones Urano)! I would be grateful if you would tell your Italian and Spanish-speaking friends about the book.
A wonderful review has just come out in La Repubblica in Rome. You can see it here: http://www.informazionecorretta.com/main.php?mediaId=&sez=80&id=43571 Please send the link to your Italian friends. Thank you.
Or, if they read English, you can send them this glorious review from the San Francisco Chronicle. You can read the entire review in the section News. Or you can go to the link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F08%2F12%2FRVI51K96PC.DTL
The review includes this wonderful quote: "Author Richard Zimler has been deservedly called "an American Umberto Eco," and has his own high standards to live up to. With his latest novel, "The Warsaw Anagrams," he not only reaches those heights but thoroughly surpasses them. Equal parts riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring and intelligent, this mystery set in the most infamous Jewish ghetto of World War II deserves a place among the most important works of Holocaust literature."
A very good interview has come out in the Los Angeles Times. In it, I discuss my tour through Poland to promote the Polish edition of The Warsaw Anagrams. Here is the link: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/books/la-ca-1225-sirens-call-20111225,0,3341127.story
Another fine review has come out in the American magazine Booklist. It includes this great quote: "Zimler brings the dailiness of life in the ghetto—both its overwhelming horror and claustrophobia and its moments of startling humanity—to vivid, sometimes unbearable life, all in the context of a nightmare version of the classic locked-room mystery. Gripping and deeply disturbing."
To puchase the novel at Amazon.com, go to: http://www.amazon.com/Warsaw-Anagrams-Novel-Richard-Zimler/dp/product-description/1590200888
Here's a link to the rave review in the New York Journal of Books: http://www.nyjbstaging.com/review/warsaw-anagrams
This novel has been a bestseller in Portugal, I Italy and Great Britain, so we'll hope for the best in America.
My book of kabbalistic haiku, Love's Voice, was pubilshed in mid-August, from Jeremy P. Tarcher Books (Penguin). You can see the cover and order the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Loves-Voice-72-Kabbalistic-Haiku/dp/1585428930
I toured Poland in November to promote the Polish edition of The Warsaw Anagrams. To read my article about my experiences there, go to: http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/60812/welcome-poland-its-where-my-family-were-killed
Other News: My crossover novel "Strawberry Fields Forever" came out in Portugal on May 8 and was a bestseller for six weeks, reaching Number 1 at the Leitura/Bulhosa bookshop chain. In Portuguese, the title is "Ilha Teresa" (Teresa Island). British rights have been sold to Arcadia Books, which will publish the book in February of 2012. Brazilian rights have already sold to Record. My Portuguese publisher chose to give the book a cover with a 1960s feel because of the connection to John Lennon and the Beatles in the book (one of the main characters is a huge Lennon fan and the climax of the novel take splace at the Strawberry Fields memorial in New York's Central Park). If you want to see the amazing cover, please go to: http://www.bertrand.pt/catalogo/detalhes_produto.php?id=28268
Should you wish to contact me, write me an email: rczimler@hotmail.com
