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American novelist Mark Helprin (b. 1947) is the author of A Soldier of the Great War, Winter's Tale, and numerous other novels and short stories, often involving dangerous travels by individualist heroes. He has also worked as a political advisor and speechwriter. Helprin grew up in New York and in the British West Indies, and served in the Israeli armed forces and the British merchant marine.