Randolph Splitter has published five books, ranging from a psychoanalytic study of Marcel Proust (recently reissued by Routledge) to four works of fiction, including a literary/historical novel about Jewish refugees from Vienna in the late 1930s called The Third Man (“an artful, tremendously absorbing novel, rich with the humanity of its characters, exquisitely told”—Elizabeth McKenzie). 

He has also published short stories, made short films, and written full-length screenplays. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton College, earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, taught college English for many years, and currently lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he continues to write.

Not yet published, The Palace of Justice Is Burning: Married under false pretenses and forced into a brothel, a young Jewish girl from the provinces escapes to Vienna, experiences the hardships of World War I, and becomes an advice columnist for a feminist-minded weekly in the progressive Red Vienna of the 1920s, as Freudian ideas take on a broader social dimension and a fascist backlash looms.