Author: Alexander Rosenberg

Alexander Rosenberg is a philosopher of science and historical novelist who often publishes fiction as Alex Rosenberg. The Girl From Krakow: A Novel follows Rita Feuerstahl from university life in 1935 through war, occupation, false identity, and the struggle to survive in Poland and Germany. Lake Union Publishing released the novel in 2015, and its story ranges across Krakow, Warsaw, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, and the Spanish Civil War. Rosenberg has explained that the narrative draws on the wartime experiences of several people he knew, reshaped into fiction rather than direct memoir. His academic career at Duke University includes influential work in philosophy of biology, economics, and the nature of historical explanation. The Girl From Krakow: A Novel links those interests to the choices individuals make under extreme political pressure, using Rita’s changing identity and relationships to examine survival, contingency, and moral compromise across the upheavals of twentieth-century Europe.