Ronald Nowicki is an American author and magazine editor.

Life

In April 1975 Nowicki founded the ''

San Francisco Review of Books ''San Francisco Review of Books'' (''SFRB'') was a book review periodical published from the mid-1970s to 1997 in the Bay Area, California, United States. Founding editor-publisher Ronald Nowicki launched his publication April 1975, a time when ...

'', which was published in the

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until 1997. The ''SFRB'' began as a magazine and later adopted a tabloid format. In addition to his editor's column, Nowicki also wrote occasional reviews. The ''San Francisco Review'' received little funding and had no backers, so it relied for financial support on a combination of advertising revenues, subscriptions, grants from the

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...

, and volunteers. Despite the limited funding, the ''Review'' was published regularly under Nowicki's editorship until the late 1980s. When it was sold in 1989, Nowicki was retained as editor for a year until a successor was installed. The publication continued well into the late 1990s with various owners, while Nowicki left to interview the last survivors of the

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

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for his first book, ''Warsaw: The Cabaret Years'' (Mercury House, 1992), about cabaret and

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life in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, between the

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. Nowicki's articles have appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

The North American Review The ''North American Review'' (''NAR'') was the first literary magazine in the United States. It was founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others. It was published continuously until 1940, after which it was inactive until reviv ...

'' and other publications. He has been active in the

Polish communities Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

and

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, where he currently lives.Mercury House: ''Warsaw: The Cabaret Years''

Works

*''Warsaw: The Cabaret Years'', Mercury House, 1992. *''The Elusive Madame G'' (2013), a biography of

Krystyna Skarbek Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, (, ; 1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring exploi ...

, aka Christine Granville

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