Richard Pollak

The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim
(Simon & Schuster, 1997)

"A riveting and wholly credible account of a charlatan-no milder term will suffice-who, applying untested Freudian dogmas to a malady that he never understood, bamboozled our intellectual and psychiatric elite, sequestered luckless children, and showered inappropriate blame on anguished parents. Richard Pollak's excellent study ought to leave us better prepared to resist the next Bettelheim who comes along."

The Colombo Bay
(Simon & Schuster, 2004)

“To the ranks of seafaring literature, we may gratefully add The Colombo Bay, an engrossing account by Richard Pollak of his global circumnavigation on a container ship.”

Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off!
(Random House, 1975)

A collection of articles from [MORE], edited and with an introduction by Richard Pollak.

"[MORE] is required reading not only for the maintenance of our perspective, but for our sanity." - Studs Terkel

"Journalism itself is the most sacred cow in journalism's barn; and [MORE] is our best eye for observing and our best voice for reminding us how spotted that cow often is." - Murray Kempton

Up Against Apartheid: The Role and the Plight of the Press in South Africa
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1981)

A portrait of the beleaguered English-language and black press as it fought the censorship of the Afrikaner government.

The Episode
(New American Library, 1986)

The Episode is a taut, spellbinding detective story. But it is also a powerful medical thriller that probes deeply the still widely misunderstood realities of epilepsy, a malady the author has suffered from all his adult life.

"A pip. . . an unusual novel of corruption and sudden death," New York Daily News.

"Richard Pollak's first novel. . . is unforgettable. . . a witty, brisk and often moving story of murder in New York City, of a tenacious reporter who finally learns what happened, and of the little known disease, epilepsy, which shadows his life. This is writing of a high order," Thomas Powers, author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets.