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Arthur R.G. Solmssen (born September 29, 1928, New York)〔(Profile of Arthur Solmssen ); www.acamedia.info.〕 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.〔 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.〔 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.〔(Martindale Lawyer Profile ); www.martindale.com〕 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.〔(List of Athenaeum Award recipients ); www.philaathenaeum.org.〕 ''A Princess in Berlin'' is a portrait of the early Weimar Republic, and has been the subject of multiple translations.〔For example, ''Une princesse à Berlin'', Éditions Robert Laffont, 1982.〕 Solmssen's works are catalogued by the German National Library, among others.〔Arthur Solmssen German Wikipedia article; www.de.wikipedia.org.〕 ''The Comfort Letter'', Solmssen's 1975 novel concerning ethics and assurances in public offerings, has been the subject of contemporary academic analysis in law.〔(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.〕 Such analysis would appear to have been a factor in renewed interest in this novel, which was reissued in 2002.〔 Solmssen is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, with which he maintains an active association.〔See (Memories of Salzburg: Evening Social for Salsburg Global Fellows ); www.salzburgglobal.org.〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur R.G. Solmssen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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