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

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

Double Crossing

When a man is killed on a bridge spanning East Germany and West Berlin, Kiril Andreyev loses more than a treasured comrade-in-arms. The door has just slammed shut on a carefully engineered escape plan... »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

Contact Information

You can contact Erika Holzer at the following e-mail address, which is masked to protect it from spam-bots:

erika.holzer -at- erikaholzer -dot- com