non-fictional writings and his translations received considerable praise, except for his book on Germany. This book was clearly outside his (music and literature) expertise and sealed his writing for publication, set aside an intro to More by Dell Shannon (1982), by his prolific client Elizabeth Linington. Personal and legacy In 1936 Barthold married Ruth Grünwald, a dancer at the Metropolitan Opera who had been just one year in the United States. Ruth assisted Barthold at his literary agency. Later she left him. In 1986, at the age of 84, Fles closed his agency. Subsequently, he returned to his native Netherlands, where he spent his last three years in Laren's Rosa Spier home for retired artists. At Rosa Spier he was approached by Madeleine Rietra, a Dutch expert on German literature, who posthumously published his letter exchange with clients Joseph Roth (bookchapter in 1991) and Heinrich Mann (book in 1993), along with commentaries and biographical notes. Barthold Fles, a diabetic for several decades, died on December 19, 1989, aged 87. Clients Rankin Barbee Cedric Belfrage Don Berry Wilhelmina de Bois Robbie Branscum Bertolt Brecht Elias Canetti Whittaker Chambers Fred Cook L. Sprague de Camp Maurits Dekker Ed Dolan Mary Dolim A. den Doolaard Albert Ehrenstein Otto Eisenschiml Carlos Embry Guy Endore Charles Finney Lion Feuchtwanger James Herndon Langston Hughes Dola de Jong Carl Jung Irmgard Keun Otto Klemperer Oskar Kokoschka Dean Koontz Ernst Krenek Joseph Wood Krutch Margaret Larkin Raymond Loewy Walter Lowenfels Elizabeth Linington Richard Lyttle Erika Mann Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Walter Mehring Jessica Mitford Helen Markley Miller Rutherford Montgomery Gorham Munson Bud Murphy Hans Natonek Rose Naumann Anaïs Nin Hollister Noble Iris Noble Leo Perutz Lea Bayers Rapp Theodor Reik Jean Rikhoff Henriette Roland Holst Joseph Roth Jean Rouverol Felix Salten Richard Sharpe Ignazio Silone Henry Simon Stan Steiner Janet Stevenson Philip Stevenson Bruno Walter Jakob Wassermann Frank Waters Kurt Weill Arnold Zweig Publications Books Written 1948 - Slavonic rhapsody: The life of Antonín Dvořák 1973 - East Germany 1993 - Briefwechsel mit Barthold Fles, 1942-1949 (with Heinrich Mann; editor Madeleine Rietra) Compiled 1948 - The best short stories from Collier's 1949 - Seven short novels from the Woman's Home Companion 1951 - The Saturday Evening Post western stories 1951 - The Saturday Evening Post Fantasy Stories Translated 1939 - Ernst Krenek: Music here and now 1939 - Felix Salten: Bambi's children 1943 - Hans Natonek: In search