Arthur R.G. Solmssen
Arthur R.G. Solmssen (born September 29, 1928, New York)[1] is a lawyer and novelist. He is particularly notable for having blended these skills prior to popularization by such novelists as John Grisham.
History
Arthur R.G. Solmssen spent his early childhood in Berlin, and his adolescence and later youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia.[1] He studied at Harvard University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his law degree in 1953.[1] He was called to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1953 and commenced working as a lawyer in Philadelphia. His professional affiliation is Of Counsel to Saul Ewing LLP.[2]
Solmssen has published several novels, the most famous of which is A Princess in Berlin (1980). Solmssen received the Athenaeum Literary Award for the novel.[3] A Princess in Berlin is a portrait of the early Weimar Republic, and has been the subject of multiple translations.[4] Solmssen's works are catalogued by the German National Library, among others.[5]
The Comfort Letter, Solmssen's 1975 novel concerning ethics and assurances in public offerings, has been the subject of contemporary academic analysis in law.[6] Such analysis would appear to have been a factor in renewed interest in this novel, which was reissued in 2002.[7]
Solmssen is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, with which he maintains an active association.[8]
He recently finished a book about German flier Ernst Udet.
Solmssen has three sons, Peter York Solmssen, Kurt A. Solmssen, and A.R.G. Solmssen Junior.
Bibliography
- 1969 Rittenhouse Square (Hodder & Stoughton)[9]
- 1971 Alexander's Feast[10]
- 1975 The Comfort Letter (Little, Brown and Company)[7]
- 1980 A Princess in Berlin (Little, Brown and Company)[11]
- 1986 Takeover Time (Little, Brown and Company)
- 2000 The Wife of Shore: A Search[12]
References
- 1 2 3 Profile of Arthur Solmssen; www.acamedia.info.
- ↑ Martindale Lawyer Profile; www.martindale.com
- ↑ List of Athenaeum Award recipients; www.philaathenaeum.org.
- ↑ For example, Une princesse à Berlin, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1982.
- ↑ Arthur Solmssen German Wikipedia article; www.de.wikipedia.org.
- ↑ Richard W. Painter (University of Minnesota), "Irrationality and Cognitive Bias at a Closing in Arthur Solmssen's The Comfort Letter", 69 Fordham Law Review 1111 (2000) (Annual Ethics Symposium), reprinted in 34 Securities Law Review 285-311 (2002). Solmssen is also referenced by Richard H. Weisberg in "Wigmore and the Law and Literature Movement". Law and Literature 21:1 (Spring, 2009), 129-145; www.caliber.ucpress.net, with reference to John Wigmore.
- 1 2 Reissued 2002 and described as follows: "This gripping novel about a Philadelphia lawyer's troubles with his biggest corporate client, and the accountants, has been recommended reading for law students. It explains the stories behind the headlines; whenever a big business deal closes, the outside accountants must give written 'comfort,' by assuring everybody that nothing very bad has happened since the financial statements were published." Arthur Solmssen, Alumni Notes, The Pennsylvania Gazette, November–December 2003; www.upenn.edu.
- ↑ See Memories of Salzburg: Evening Social for Salsburg Global Fellows; www.salzburgglobal.org.
- ↑ Paperback edition by Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
- ↑ Paperback edition by Pocket Books, 1973.
- ↑ Paperback editions by Ballantine Books, 1981; Penguin Books, 1982.
- ↑ Paperback edition by Mill Creek Press, 2000.
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