Frederic Morton

Novelist and critic, FREDERIC MORTON was born and reared in Vienna and has long been at home in German literature. In late spring he had several happy visits with Thomas Mann, and their talks together gave him this perceptive view of Mann’s last novel, The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, which has just been published by Knopf. Mr. Morton, who graduated from the City College of New York, won the Intercollegiate Literary Fellowship in 1947 with his first book, The Hound, and since then he has written two more novels, The Darkness Below and Asphalt and Desire.