Leopold Tyrmand

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Leopold Tyrmand (1921-1985) was a Polish-Jewish novelist and editor. He rose to prominence for his publication of anti-regime newspapers in Poland. He emigrated to the United States in 1966.

Once in the United States, Tyrmand regularly published essays in American periodicals such as The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He became the co-founder and vice-president of the Rockford Institute, a conservative foundation critical of American publishing values and and their apparent bias toward liberal writers. He served as editor of Chronicles of Culture, an anti-Communist journal.

His books included Kultura Essays, Explorations in Freedom, Notebooks of a Dilettante, On the Border of Jazz and Seven Long Voyages. His most famous novel was The Man With White Eyes.

Tyrmand died of a heart attack in Rockford, Illinois. He was 64 years old.