Michael Korda

Michael Vincent Korda ( born October 8, 1933, London, United Kingdom) is a British writer and publisher with Hungarian origin. Korda was from 1958 to 2006 worked at the publishing house Simon & Schuster in New York City.

Curriculum vitae

Michael Korda grew up in Britain and France. He was taught at the Swiss boarding school Le Rosey and studied at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. From 1952 to 1954 he did his military service in the Royal Air Force.

In the 1950s he moved to New York City where he worked for the playwright Sidney Kingsley as an assistant. From 1958 he worked at the publishing house Simon & Schuster as an editor. Later he was promoted to chief of the publishing house to the editor. In the following years he published works of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Larry McMurtry and David McCullough. In 2006 he officially ended his work for Simon & Schuster, the company was retained as editor in chief emeritus.

In 1985 Queenie, a roman à clef about his aunt Merle Oberon. The book has been overwhelmingly positive and reviewed later filmed as a television mini-series with Joss Ackland, Martin Balsam, Kirk Douglas and Mia Sara.

In the fall of 1994, prostate cancer was diagnosed in him. Three years later he published the book Man to man, in which he reported on his experiences with the disease.

In 2007 he published with Ike: An American Hero, a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Two years later, With Wings Like Eagles - A History of the Battle of Britain, a report on the Battle of Britain.

Family

Korda is the son of British actress Gertrude Musgrove and the Hungarian production designer Vincent Korda. Korda is the nephew of film director Zoltan Korda and the film producer -director Alexander Korda.

In 1958, he married Carolyn Keese. After the divorce, he married Margaret Mogford, with whom he later published books. From the first marriage sprang from the Born in 1962, son Chris Korda, a gender activist and musician and leader of the controversial religious group Church of Euthanasia. After the founding of the Church of Euthanasia Korda called his son on unsuccessfully, to stop its activities or to adopt a pseudonym.

Works (selection)

  • With Wings Like Eagles - A History of the Battle of Britain. Harper, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-112535-5
  • Ike: An American Hero. Harper Collins, 2007 ISBN 978-0-06-075665-9
  • From man to man. Limes Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-8090-3006-6
  • The Mass lots. ECON -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-430-15611-4
  • Queenie. Del Rey, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7645-1734-4
  • And always at its best: the turbulent life of Korda. Piper Verlag, Munich, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-492-02576-5
  • The M- factor or how to enforce with success: Methods and techniques of a new Machiavelli. Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-00801-0
  • Power and how to deal with it. Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1976, 3-570-02720-1
  • Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, Harper, 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-171261-6
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