Simon Louvish

Simon Louvish (born 6 April 1947, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scots-born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about Avram Blok, a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses.

Louvish is a visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the London Film School. He has written books on W. C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy, Mae West, Cecil B. DeMille, Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin.

Publications

The Avram Blok Saga

• Louvish, Simon (1985). The Therapy of Avram Blok. Vol. 1. Heinemann. ISBN 0434429708. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1988). City of Blok. Vol. 2. Collins. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1991). The Last Trump of Avram Blok. Vol. 3. Flamingo. ISBN 0006543405. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1997). The Days of Miracles and Wonders. Vol. 4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon. The Fundamental Blok. Vol. 5 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon. The Chinese Smile. Vol. 6 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

Fiction

• Louvish, Simon (1979). A Moment Of Silence. ISBN 0856161314. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1987). Death of Moishe-Ganef. Corgi. ISBN 0552992860. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1990). Your Monkey's Shmuck. Flamingo. ISBN 0006543464. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1992). Resurrections from the Dustbin of History. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747511918. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1994). Resurrections. Da Capo Press. ISBN 1568580142. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1995). What's Up God?: A Romance of the Apocalypse. W&N. ISBN 057505994X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1997). The Silencer. Interlink Books. ISBN 1566561167. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1999). The Cosmic Follies. Institute of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 1900300419. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

Non-fiction

• Louvish, Simon (1994). It's a Gift. BFI Publishing. ISBN 0851704727. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (1997). The Man on the Flying Trapeze - the Life & Times of W C Fields. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0393041271. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (2003). KEYSTONE The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett. Faber & Faber. ISBN 057121276X. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (2002). Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571215904. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (2003). Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers. ISBN 0571193501. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (2006). Mae West: It Ain't No Sin. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571219497. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (2007). Coffee With Groucho. Duncan Baird. ISBN 978-1844834693. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Louvish, Simon (2007). Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571229000. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help) Also published (2008) as Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
• Louvish, Simon (2009). Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571237685. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

External links

• Simon Louvish at IMDb
• Simon Louvish at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• His homepage
• New York Times a review of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
• Macmillan Publishers a photograph of Louvish