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“Empire and Odyssey,” published by Steerforth Press in 2006, traces the personal journey of the Brynner family back to the life of the author’s great-grandfather Jules, a Swiss émigré who launched a successful shipping agency in the Far East in the second half of the 19th century and eventually settled in the booming Russian Pacific port city of Vladivostok.

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Mirroring his eclectic professional career, Brynner has authored six books ranging from the novels “The Ballad of Habit and Accident” and “The Doomsday Report” to the biography of his father “Yul: The Man Who Would Be King.” His previous nonfiction works include “Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Modern Medicine.” constitutional history has made him a frequent guest lecturer at universities and other institutions in the United States, Russia, Europe and the Middle East. He has served since 2000 as a member of the history faculty at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and his specialization in U.S. in American history at Columbia University in 1993. He wrote and staged a one-man play based on the writings of his godfather, the French poet, playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau.īrynner received a master’s in philosophy at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in the 1960s, and took up studies two decades later to earn a Ph.D. The son of actors Yul Brynner and Virginia Gilmore, Rock Brynner’s personal odyssey has taken him from a childhood in the United States and Switzerland to a multi-faceted career that has unfolded from Broadway to Vladivostok.

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His lecture, sponsored by the WCSU History Society, will be free and the public is invited. on the first floor of Warner Hall on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White St. constitutional history and author whose wide-ranging professional experiences have spanned the gamut from restaurateur to road manager, will recount his family’s roots in the Russian Far East and extraordinary odyssey over four generations in a lecture on Wednesday, March 28, at Western Connecticut State University.īrynner will discuss his latest book “Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond” in a talk at 6 p.m.

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