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Bloom, Harry, 1913-1981

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Personal name headingBloom, Harry, 1913-1981
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Variant(s)Bloom, Harry Saul, 1913-1981
Bloom, Solomon Harris, 1913-1981
See alsoStorm, Walter, 1913-1981
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Birth date19130101
Death date19810728
Found inHis Transvaal episode, 1981: t.p. (Harry Bloom) jkt. (South African; resides Canterbury, England)
LC data base, 2/3/84 (hdg.: Bloom, Harry)
Wikipedia (viewed 25 Sept. 2013): (Harry Bloom. Harry Saul Bloom (1 January 1913-28 July 1981) was a Jewish South African journalist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Solomon Harris Bloom, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, obtaining his law degree in 1937 ... married Beryl Gordon in 1940 and they moved to London where he worked as a war correspondent during the Second World War ... He wrote under the pseudonym Walter Storm, and covered the Nuremberg trials after the war. Beryl and Harry then emigrated to Czechoslovakia ... Together they wrote the book We meet the Czechoslovaks... they returned to South Africa where they settled in Bramley, Johannesburg. ... in 1957 the family uprooted again and moved to Cape Town. Bloom's first novel, Episode (1956), was later retitled Transvaal Episode)