distinctions From 1993 to 1995, Begley was president of PEN American Center. He served on PEN's board of directors from 1992-2001. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres Philosophical Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The University of Heidelberg conferred on him in 2008 the degree of D. Phil., honoris causa. Bibliography Wartime Lies (1991) The Man Who Was Late (1993) As Max Saw It (1994) About Schmidt (1996), basis for the 2002 film of the same name Mistler's Exit (1998) Schmidt Delivered (2000) Shipwreck (2003) Matters of Honor (2007) Schmidt Steps Back (2012) Memories of a Marriage (2013) Killer, Come Hither (2015) Kill and Be Killed (2016) Killer's Choice (2019) New Life of Hugo Gardner (2020) References External links Official site 1933 births Living people 20th-century Polish Jews 21st-century American novelists Harvard Law School alumni Polish Holocaust survivors Prix Médicis étranger winners Jewish American novelists Polish emigrants to the United States New York (state) lawyers American male journalists Journalists from New York City American male novelists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners American male essayists 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists Erasmus Hall High School alumni Harvard Advocate alumni 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Harvard College alumni Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 21st-century American Jews Members of the American Philosophical Society People associated with Debevoise & Plimpton