Randolph Splitter has published five books: a psychoanalytic study of Marcel Proust (recently reissued by Routledge); the novella/story collection Body and Soul (Creative Arts); The Ramadan Drummer, a novel about clashing values and the search for connection in a multicultural world; The Third Man, a novel about dispossession, refuge, and the morally complex search for justice and humanity; and Birth Pangs, a literary mystery about home, family, and abandonment. His short stories have appeared in such places as the Chicago Quarterly Review, JewishFiction.net, and Akashic Books’ Mondays are Murder series. He’s also written prize-winning screenplays and made short films. He has adapted The Third Man for film.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton College; earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley; and taught literature, creative writing, and composition at the college level for many years. He currently lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he writes novels, dodges raindrops, and exercises his social conscience.