Background
Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Sidney and Helen Katz, née Holland, and married Beverly Gerstel on September 22, 1957.
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Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Sidney and Helen Katz, née Holland, and married Beverly Gerstel on September 22, 1957.
He studied at Brooklyn College 1951-1953 and went on to be a photojournalist, filmmaker, United Hias Service, New York City 1953-1957.
The couple had two sons: Stephen Lee Katz, Jonathan Howard Katz. As a writer, he began at the American Cancer Society in New York (1958-1963) and then at the United Nations in New York and Rome (1963-1964). He was a freelance writer from 1964 until his death.
He fulfilled academic roles at numerous institutions, including being Visiting Professor of Investigative Journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1986-1992).
Awarded an ongoing Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970, he has also been a fellow of Adlai East. Stevenson College. University of California during 1986 to 1992.
He became a grantee of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1971. And a recipient of the Laceno d"Oro (best screenplay) award at the Neorealist Film Festival in Avellino, Italy (1983).
Katz was involved in a criminal-libel in Italy over the contents of his book Death in Rome, in which he was charged with "defaming the memory of the Pope" Pius XII regarding the Ardeatine Massacre of 335 Italians, including 70 Jews, at the Ardeatine Caves in 1944.
The case ended with the charges being dismissed in 1980 by Italy"s highest court. The suit had been issued by the Pope"s family. The book was made into the 1973 film Massacre in Rome.
Katz lived for many years in Tuscany, Italy.
He died October 20, 2010, in Montevarchi, Italy, as a result of complications from cancer surgery. Death in Rome, New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1967.
Black Sabbath: A Journey through a Crime against Humanity, Macmillan, 1969. The Fall of the House of Savoy, Macmillan, 1971.
A Giant in the Earth, Stein & Day, 1973.
Days of Wrath: The Ordeal of Aldo Moro, the Kidnapping, the Execution, the Aftermath, Doubleday, 1980. (Pulitzer Prize nomination 1981)
Il caso Moro (with G Ferrara and A Balducci), Pironti, 1987. Love is Colder than Death: The Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Random House, 1987.
Naked by the Window: The Fatal Marriage of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
Dossier Priebke, Rizzoli, 1997. The Battle for Rome: the Germans, the Allies, the Partisans and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944, Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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Married Beverly Gerstel, September 22, 1957. Children: Stephen Lee, Jonathan Howard.