Mordecai Roshwald
Mordecai Marceli Roshwald was an American academic and writer. Born in Drohobycz, Ukraine to Jewish parents, Roshwald later emigrated to Israel. His most famous work is Level 7, a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. He is also the author of A Small Arrmageddon and Dreams and Nightmares: Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction.
Roshwald was a "professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."
He lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the time of his death.