Alexander Berkman (1870 –1936) was a Russian-American anarchist, author and a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing. He was the lover of Emma Goldman, anarchist, political activist, writer and renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women’s rights, and social issues. In 1892, he tried to kill Henry Clay Frick, American industrialist, financier and union-buster, because of his involvement with the Homestead Strike. During World War I, he was deported along with Goldman and other foreign-born American anarchists as a result of the Anarchist Exclusion Act. Berkman died in France in 1936.