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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. Early life and education [ edit ]
- January 2, 1933, New York City
- Fiction, non-fiction
- May 10, 2003 (aged 70), California
- University of Michigan
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 had ...
Aug 4, 2020 · A Cat is a collection of prose poems and miniature meditations by the great short story writer and novelist Leonard Michaels, exploring the enigma of our feline companions and how they reveal us to ourselves. The book is a loveliest and quietest masterpiece, with illustrations by artist Frances Lerner and a new introduction by Sigrid Nunez.
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Apr 19, 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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Jun 10, 2007 · June 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 ...
Apr 7, 2022 · Reading Leonard Michaels, the great story writer and essayist, brings Beckett to mind. “Windows were open. The breeze smelled of reasons to live,” says one Michaels narrator, evoking hope, weariness, acceptance. Often, Michaels seems tied to Beckett by a metaphysical thread.
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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