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Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher
The fascinating memoir detailing Ms. Holzer's mentor- protégé relationship with the author of Atlas Shrugged, including a selection of Holzer's rare short stories and writing exercises... »More
Eye for an Eye
Karen Newman is a smart savvy executive whose soft-on-crime inclinations are in stiking contrast to her hard-headed business acumen — until violence strikes a much-loved member of her family and sends her life spinning out of control... »More
Fake Warriors
Unknown to most Americans, there is a virtual epidemic of impostors in this country — countless thousands of people who, since the Vietnam War, have been either inventing a non-existent military service, or inflating their war records... »More
Every novelist, it seems, has a mentor, dead or alive. A man or a woman whose literary accomplishments and personal influence lit the fire within and kept it burning through trial, error and insensitive reviews.

Ayn Rand was very much alive during the period of my life when I first considered transitioning out of the practice of law into full-time writing.

It was during the 1960s, roughly six years after my husband and I had graduated from New York University Law School, that we.... »More

Biography for Erika Holzer

Lawyer-turned-novelist Erika Holzer has a B.S. degree from Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law.

After specializing in labor law with the Manhattan firm Battle, Fowler, Stokes & Kheel, as well as teaching labor law at Fairleigh Dickinson University, she practiced constitutional and appellate law with her husband, Henry Mark Holzer.

Human Rights

Holzer and her husband devoted part of their practice to pro bono human rights cases.

The most notorious was their six-year battle to protect the rights of Walter Polovchak (a twelve-year-old dubbed by columnist George Will as "the littlest defector") — in the face of efforts by the KGB, with ACLU support, to forcibly return young Polovchak to the then-Soviet Union.

Another well-publicized case that culminated in the granting of political asylum involved two teenagers who had defected from a visiting Rumanian circus.

Polovchak, as well as the two Rumanian girls, are happily assimilated American citizens.

Ayn Rand

During the period in the mid-to-late1960s when the Holzers represented novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand, they tracked down and recovered Rand's lost film classic, the 1941 Italian-made Noi Vivi and Adio Kira, based on Rand's first novel We the Living.

The Holzers, with Duncan Scott Productions, co-produced the film, working with Ayn Rand to edit the two films and merge them into one. Erika Holzer, with Duncan Scott, co-wrote the subtitled script.

The movie version of We the Living became an internationally acclaimed “classic” art film, playing in art theaters to rave reviews all over the world. The film continues to be shown at American film festivals.

Non-fiction

Holzer has written numerous essays, articles, syndicated columns, and book and movie reviews. Some of her articles were co-written with her husband, Henry Mark Holzer.

Holzer co-authored two books with her husband: Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co. ) and Fake Warriors: Identifying, Exposing and Punishing Those Who Falsify their Military Service (Xlibris).

Her most recent book is Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher — A Novelist's Mentor-Protégé Relationship with the author of Atlas Shrugged (Madison Press).

Fiction

Holzer's novel Double Crossing (Putnam) is a human rights espionage drama.

A Literary Guild alternate, Double Crossing received much critical acclaim (see endorsements). It was published in Sweden, Norway, Holland, Japan and Greece.

Her thriller Eye for an Eye (St. Martin's Press/Forge Books), is an indictment of our criminal justice system. Novelist Nelson DeMille called it “an American Clockwork Orange.” It was published in France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Poland.

Paramount Pictures produced a feature film based on Eye for an Eye. It was directed by John Schlesinger and starred Sally Field and Kiefer Sutherland, with Ed Harris and Joe Mantegna. It was released in 1996 and still appears regularly on cable television.

Authors Guild Back-in-print Editions

Double Crossing and Eye for an Eye are available as iUniverse trade paperback editions.

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