Arthur Porges
Overview
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author of numerous short stories
Short Stories
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, most notably in the 1950s and 1960s, though he continued to write and publish stories until his death.
Arthur Porges was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 20 August 1915. After completing his B.A. and masters degrees in mathematics, he was drafted into the army in World War II
World War II
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and served as an instructor in California
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He taught mathematics while teaching at college before retiring to write.
Porges's father, Israel Podgursky, was born in 1885 in a small town near the Russia-Poland border and had American connections through his two brothers—Mortimer, a lawyer in Chicago, and Dave, who worked for the Chicago Board of Education—and two sisters, Lilian and Rose, neither of whom married.
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