Randolph Splitter has published six books, ranging from a psychoanalytic study of Marcel Proust (recently reissued by Routledge) to five works of fiction, including two literary/historical novels set partly in Vienna in the 1910s, '20s, and '30s: The Third Man (“an artful, tremendously absorbing novel, rich with the humanity of its characters, exquisitely told”—Elizabeth McKenzie) and The Palace of Justice Is Burning ("a remarkable feat of historical imagination...a novel that understands ... that the personal and the historical are inseparable"--Danielle Knafo). 

He has also published short stories, made short films, and written feature-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 dodges raindrops, exercises his social conscience, and continues to write.