Thomas Berger (novelist)

Thomas Berger
Berger in 1987
Born	Thomas Louis Berger (1924-07-20)July 20, 1924 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died	July 13, 2014(2014-07-13) (aged 89) Nyack, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Education	University of Cincinnati (BA) Columbia University The New School
Period	1958–2014
Genre	Literary fiction
Spouse	Jeanne Redpath ​ (m. 1950)​

Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated many genres of fiction throughout his career, including the crime novel, the hard-boiled detective story, science fiction, the utopian novel, plus re-workings of classical mythology, Arthurian legend, and the survival adventure.^[1]

Berger's biting wit led many reviewers to refer to him as a satirist or "comic" novelist, descriptions he preferred to reject.^[2] His admirers often bemoaned that his talent and achievement were underappreciated, in view of his versatility across many forms of fiction, his precise use of language, and his probing intelligence.