The Re-surfacing of Benjamin Dexter

The real Benjamin Dexter would never have travelled to Vienna.

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Benjamin Dexter was a popular author in the early to mid-20th century whose popularity faded into obscurity with the author himself but his name is being spoken again. Becky Klaus of The New Yorker is calling him “the Van Gogh of 20th century literature” and Martin Scorsese is planning to adapt Dexter’s celebrated novel Th…