Novelist and Writing Professor

Leslie Epstein

1 article 2018

Leslie Epstein is a novelist and longtime director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. The son and nephew of celebrated Hollywood screenwriters Philip and Julius Epstein, he contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard exploring the intersection of Nazis and the film industry.

Nazis in Tinseltown

January 29, 2018 · Hollywood, Nazis, Books and Art

In the late 1930s, or perhaps it was as late as 1940, my father and uncle, the screenwriters Philip and Julius Epstein, sought to join the American armed forces. The Army turned them away; it apparently considered their anti-fascism premature. That, at any rate, is family lore, and I have every…