Alvin Schwartz

Alvin Schwartz (1916-2011) wrote Superman and Batman strips as well as many other DC comic-book titles during the 1940s and '50s. In 2006 he received the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. He was the author of An Unlikely Prophet and The Blowtop, which was described by the New York Times as the first conscious existentialist novel in America. He also wrote a number of screenplays and some 30 docudramas for the National Film Board of Canada.

Books By Alvin Schwartz

A Gathering of Selves

By Alvin Schwartz

Alvin Schwartz’s amazing personal journey continues in this sequel to An Unlikely Prophet. Carried far beyond the boundaries of ordinary identity, Schwartz finds an interpersonal consciousness where he inhabits a multitude of selves, including the dark figure of Batman. What he thinks of as “self,” Schwartz discovers, is but one layer of an onion-like structure of multiple co-existing selves that forms the foundation of the fundamental unity of all being.

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An Unlikely Prophet

By Alvin Schwartz

Alvin Schwartz takes the path without form, an amazing personal journey in the company of Hawaiian kahunas, quantum physicists, and superheroes. As Schwartz’s lifelong remembrance of synchrony, inspiration, accident, and magic unfolds, it puts into vivid clarity the saving grace that inhabits every moment of our lives. The author travels as a stranger in a strange land, whose greatest oddity is that this land is our own.

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