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From 1925 to 1945, Benjamin Swig was a real estate operator. He was a partner of the real estate firm Swig, Weiler and Arnow that was founded in 1936, [1] [2] which became the Swig company. [3] In the 1940s, he moved to San Francisco, which he loved. [4] He bought the Fairmont Hotel in 1945, and later the St. Francis Hotel. [5]
Fugitive Pieces is a novel by the Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels.The story is divided into two sections. The first centers around Jakob Beer, a Polish Holocaust survivor, while the second involves a man named Ben, the son of two Holocaust survivors.
The book is composed of four fictional texts: A Novel (Bonds), an incomplete autobiography (My Life), a completed memoir (A Memoir, Remembered), and a diary (Futures). While each book focuses on many of the same characters, the information included in each is often mutually exclusive, with it being left up to the reader to determine the truth.
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal is a 2009 book by Ben Mezrich about the founding of Facebook, [1] adapted by Aaron Sorkin for the 2010 film The Social Network.
Weiler was born to a poor Jewish family in Svyatsk, Russian Empire, the seventh of ten children. [2] His father, Faivel, was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar. [2] In 1910, the family moved to the United States and settled in Manhattan and then the Bronx where his father taught yeshiva students. [2]
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". [1] It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales.
The book recounts the story of John D'Agostino, whom the book renames David Russo. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The hardback of the book was number 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list in 2007, [ 3 ] and was number 29 in paperback nonfiction on December 14, 2008.
Wonderstruck (2011) is an American young-adult fiction novel written and illustrated by Brian Selznick, who also created The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007). In Wonderstruck, Selznick continued the narrative approach of his last book, using both words and illustrations — though in this book he separates the illustrations and the writings into their own story and weaves them together at the end.