friday the rabbi slept late by harry kemelman

Having then run out of days, there followed Someday the Rabbi Will Leave, One Fine Day the Rabbi bought a Cross, The Day the Rabbi Resigned and, finally, published two years before the author died, aged 87, The Day the Rabbi Left Town. It was followed by Rabbi Small books featuring all the other days of the week: Saturday, the Rabbi Went Hungry, Sunday, the Rabbi Stayed Home, Monday, the Rabbi Took Off, Tuesday, the Rabbi saw Red, Wednesday, the Rabbi Got Wet and Thursday, the Rabbi Walked Out. This won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award in 1964. Then in 1964 appeared Friday, the Rabbi Slept Late in which Rabbi Small made his first appearance, and which made use of material from Kemelman's own factual account of the building of his local temple that his publisher had at first rejected. These were subsequently published as The Nine Mile Walk, named after the best of the stories. His first short stories (which have not aged too well) featured Nicky Welt, a college professor who solved various mysteries just using logic but without having to go out and do very much himself. After serving in the second world war as a chief wage administrator, he was eventually appointed an assistant professor of English at Franklin Technical Institute in 1963. He married in 1936, and had two daughters and one son.

He had long wanted to become a writer but at first, after reading English Literature at Boston University, had to teach in local schools. Harry Kemelman grew up in Boston where his parents had settled after emigrating from Russia. Rabbi David Small is the creation of Harry Kemelman (1908-1996).

Friday the rabbi slept late by harry kemelman