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Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 – May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, and a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
May 9, 2024 · Leonard Michaels was an American short-story writer, novelist, and essayist known for his compelling urban tales of whimsy and tragedy. Michaels was educated at New York University (B.A., 1953) and at the University of Michigan (M.A., 1956; Ph.D., 1966).
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May 13, 2003 · Leonard Michaels, a novelist and short-story writer whose precise, highly literary style illuminated weirdly realistic human predicaments, died on Saturday in Berkeley, Calif. He was 70 and...
Apr 7, 2022 · A writer’s writer, an obsessive’s obsessive, Michaels began publishing as Jewish fiction flourished in America. The years 1965–1975 saw Bellow’s best novels; Roth’s scream-of-consciousness, Portnoy’s Complaint ; Malamud’s The Fixer .
May 10, 2003 · Leonard Michaels was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Going Places, his first book of short stories, made his reputation as one of the most brilliant of that era's fiction writers; the stories are urban, funny, and written in a private, hectic diction ...
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Michaels’ admirers and protégés are legion (David Bezmozgis, an impressive young story writer, is one), and for good reason: neither the most prolific nor the most accessible of the great Jewish-American short story writers, he was, perhaps, the most honest.
Jun 10, 2007 · Larky, fitfully brilliant, as profane as they are aphoristic, Leonard Michaels’s stories stand alongside those of his best Jewish contemporaries — Grace Paley and Philip Roth.
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