Robert wernick biography

Salvador Dali once called him the stupidest man in the world; Cary Grant described him as the smartest.
Robert Wernick, formerly on the staff of Life, now lives in California.
One of the volumes was written by Robert Wernick, a career journalist and writer, who spent years writing for Time-Life publications and others.

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Robert Wernick, formerly on the staff of Life, now lives in California. He is the author of many magazine articles and two novels. The epitaph on page in is from Over Their Dead Bodies: Yankee Epitaphs & History , by Thomas C. Mann and Janet Greene, published by the Stephen Greene Press.

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Appreciation: Robert Wernick

About a month ago, while lingering over offerings at a Library of Virginia lobby book sale, I came across the multi-volume Time-Life history of World War II. As a youngster, I eagerly read these pages and appreciated the rich trove of photographs. One of the volumes was written by Robert Wernick, a career journalist and writer, who spent years writing for Time-Life publications and others.

When a gawky, nearsighted kid hampered by a funny name and without much in the way of social skills, I spent hours amid the book stacks and aisles of the Lori Road Branch of the Chesterfield County Public Library. I was then fated to run into Bob — not the man, himself, but his words. One I remember quite well was The Monument Builders, a title in the Time-Life series “The Emergence of Man.”

I recall keeping it out long enough to make it overdue.

Similarly, I paged through his exciting volume on The Vikings and about the German Blitzkrieg that opened World War II. I consumed his words without the knowledge he’d been quen

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christieis the title of a short non-fiction introduction to the life and works of Agatha Christieby Robert Wernick. The book is available was first published by New Word City in 2017 and is available as an ebook only on Kindle and other e-publishing platforms. The author is a journalist who has written many short books in the same format, dealing with significant historical figures or events.

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Dame Agatha Christie's words and thoughts live on in her amazing body of work, and the Queen of Crime, as the mystery writer was dubbed in her lifetime, shows every sign of lasting. Here, in this short-form book by award-winning journalist Robert Wernick, is her surprising and little-told story.