Harold Flender was a native New Yorker and an amateur of jazz. After graduating from C.C.N.Y. and earning his Master's degree at Columbia University, he taught school briefly. While still attending college he began his writing career in television and subsequently wrote documentary and feature films both here and in Europe. His television assignments include plays for the religious programs Look Up and Live and Frontiers of Faith. For the past two years he has been a writer on the television program Wide, Wide World. Articles and criticism by him have appeared in the Saturday Review and The New Leader. PARIS BLUES was his first novel.
