Shepard Rifkin

In addition to The Murderer Vine, Shepard Rifkin authored such other novels as Desire Island, King Fisher’s Road, Ladyfingers, and The Snow Rattlers, and edited the collection The Savage Years. Born in 1918, Rifkin also served aboard the famous S. S. Ben Hecht, the ship that in 1947 attempted to run the British blockade of Palestine carrying hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust.