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Alan Winter was born in Newark, NJ and graduated from Livingston High School. He graduated with honors in history from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ, before pursuing advanced degrees from Columbia and NYU. His many professional accomplishments include editing a journal for eleven years, publishing more than twenty scientific articles, and being appointed associate professor at both Columbia and NYU.
Parallel with his professional career, Alan began to write fiction. This was more than thirty-five years ago. The impetus for his first novel came from the fact that his three sons looked nothing alike. What if he took the wrong one home from the hospital? The result: "Someone Else's Son." His next novel, "Snowflakes in the Sahara," is a tongue-and-cheek suspense thriller that couples global warming with Manifest Destiny. What would America do if our farmlands withered and Canada flourished? And what if a real estate mogul in New York had his eyes on the presidency? Written in 1999––there is a terrorist attack in NYC, a landmark building bombed, and anthrax attack, and a campaign to bring down Saddam Hussein––"Snowflakes . . . " gives rise to the meaning of "prescient." More poignmant and meaningful than when first written, "Snowflakes . . . " rings so true that the reader will think it was ripped from today's headlines.
In "Savior's Day," Alan turned to historical fiction with a contemporary spin. Kirkus Review made it a Best Book Selection of 2013. "Savior's Day" is set on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral when a murder occurs before the caring eyes of Cardinal Arnold Ford. What follows is a tale of how a 1000-year-old Bible survives disaster after to disaster only to be shrouded in mystery that the Mossad cannot answer. It speaks to hope, to an African-American hero, and to our fragile, Biblical destinies.
Alan's next novel, "Island Bluffs," couples relatively unknown facts about the German submarines sinking 400 boats off the U.S. eastern seaboard in the first six months of 1942 in which a town's long-kept secrets are about to be revealed. Reminiscent of Ira Levin's "Boys from Brazil," with a modern-day scientific twist, "Island Bluffs" will satisfy history buffs and lovers of suspense novels alike . . . and reveal the horrifying realities of the neo-Nazis that lived as "neighbors" in New Jersey during WWII.
"Wolf" is Alan's latest novel and is co-authored with Herbert J. Stern. "Wolf" is an historical novel that pulls back the curtain on secrets historians have failed to reveal regarding Hitler and how the Nazis came to power for close to 100 years. Meticulously researched, it changes the historiography of what is known about one of the most evil periods in human history. And, as liberties were taken one-by-one from the German people, the reader can't help but relate to the assault on democracy today.
"Sins of the Fathers" is the sequel to "Wolf." Also co-authored with Herbert J. Stern and written as an historical novel, it depicts the lives of real characters––German military leaders, politicians, and clergy––who formed a clandestine group to overthrow Adolf Hitler and his heinous regime in September 1938. The coup would be launched when the resistors received a phone call that Hitler had ordered troops to invade Czechoslovakia. But that call never came. "Sins of the Fathers" reveals the truths that historians have kept shrouded in mysteries for generations. Learn the amazing story of how WWII might have been avoided and understand contemporary parallels the world is now experiencing.
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