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Richard Zimler

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January 01, 1956 in Roslyn Heights, New York, The United States

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Historical Fiction

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Richard Zimler was born in Roslyn Heights, a suburb of New York City, in 1956. After earning a bachelor's degree in comparative religion from Duke University (1977) and a master's degree in journalism from Stanford University (1982), he worked for eight years as a journalist, mainly in the San Francisco Bay area. In 1990, he moved to Porto, Portugal, and he has taught journalism for the last sixteen years, first at the College of Journalism and now at the University of Porto. Richard has both American and Portuguese nationality. He has published seven novels over the last decade: "The Seventh Gate; "The Search for Sana"; "Guardian of the Dawn"; "Hunting Midnight"; "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon"; "The Angelic Darkness"; and "Unholy Ghosts."...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 1,032 ratings · 144 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (The Sephardic Cycle, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 1998 — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Warsaw Anagrams: A Novel 3.89 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Hunting Midnight (The Sephardic Cycle, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Seventh Gate (The Sephardic Cycle, #4) 4.23 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Guardian of the Dawn (The Sephardic Cycle, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Search for Sana 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ilha Teresa 3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Angelic Darkness 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Unholy Ghosts 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Confundir a Cidade com o Mar 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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The Sephardic Cycle (4 books)
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“Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.”
― Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

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“God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.”
― Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

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