Jay Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren (born May 30, 1938, Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

Education

Jay Neugeboren was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He went to Public School Number 246, Walt Whitman Junior High School (where he was its first president), and Erasmus Hall High School. He received a B. A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University, and a Master of Arts from Indiana University, where he was a University Fellow.

Career

He is the author of 22 books. He has won numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

He has taught at Columbia University, Indiana University, Stanford University, the State University of New York at Old Westbury, the University of Freiburg (Germany), and was for many years (1971-2001) Professor and writer in residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Awards

His novella, “Corky’s Brother,” won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award (1969). He has had stories in more than 50 anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and Penguin Modern Stories.

He has won prizes for his fiction (The Stolen Jew: American Jewish Committee Award for Best Novel of the Year, 1981; Before My Life Began: Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Prize for Best Novel of the Year, 1985), and non-fiction (Imagining Robert: New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Transforming Madness: National Alliance on Mental Illness, “Ken” Award). He is the only writer to have won six consecutive P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards.

His screenplay for The Hollow Boy (American Playhouse, PBS, 1991, was chosen best screenplay of the year by the Los Angeles Times and at the Houston Film Festival.

Personal life

He has been married three times, and has three children (Miriam, born 1970; Aaron, born 1973; Eli, born 1974), and four grandchildren (Mikayla, born 2016; Addison, born 2017; Zachary, born 2011; Leo, born 2013).

Bibliography

References

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  1. ↑ Joel Shatzky; Michael Taub (1938-05-30). "Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook". Books.google.com. p. 228. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  2. ↑ "Jay Neugeboren Biography - York, Review, Life, and Jewish - JRank Articles". Biography.jrank.org. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  3. ↑ Jay Neugeboren. "Jay Neugeboren". Jayneugeboren.com. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  4. ↑ Steven Joel Rubin. "Writing Our Lives: Autobiographies of American Jews, 1890-1990". Books.google.com. p. 249. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
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