Jack Engelhard is an American novelist and journalist. His masterpiece, to date, is the international bestselling novel, “Indecent Proposal,” which has been translated into more than 28 different languages and was later adapted into a movie starring Demi Moore and Robert Redford. For this and his other works, he has been deemed a worldwide master of moral dilemmas.

Each one of Engelhard’s books reflects a particular period in Engelhard’s life: The memoir “Escape from Mount Moriah” is a bitter-sweet recollection of making it as a kid in Montreal, after landing there from France and the Holocaust. “Indecent Proposal” is a breakthrough work of the imagination that became a worldwide literary sensation, and later a blockbuster movie under the same title.

The historical novel “The Days of the Bitter End” is totally USA, Greenwich Village, the counterrevolution during the turbulent 1960s; In “The Girls of Cincinnati” (his first and still his favorite) it’s a frustrated actor in a dead-end job, but pursued by women, including one terribly dangerous.

“Slot Attendant” finds the hero in the world of writing, publishing and casinos, and always on the verge of making a comeback. “The Horsemen” is a true to life account of the thoroughbred backstretch.

In “The Bathsheba Deadline,” modelled after the biblical David and Bathsheba and Uriah love-triangle, the author takes up the world of journalism, for better or worse.

“News Anchor Sweetheart” imagines what it must be like to be the husband, a failure, married to the queen of television news, modeled after Megyn Kelly.

All of his works are in print through CCB Publishing or DayRay Literary Press, and available through Amazon.

Engelhard’s writing is known for its “light touch.” Of his approach, he says, “Write your heart out, then cut it in half, and let the chips fall where they may.”

Of his writing “Indecent Proposal,” Barbara Raskin in “The New York Times” cited his prose as “Precise, almost clinical language.”

His books and columns are often quotable, among them, “Consider; when you have a book in your hands, you have the writer’s life in your hands.”