Jonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in Newton, Massachusetts. He is the Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate as well as the Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University.[1] Within the English Department at Tufts, he teaches courses on Creative Writing and contemporary American Fiction.[2] He lives with his wife, Sharon Kaitz,[3] who is an artist. He has two sons, Adam Wilson, a journalist and writer[4] and Gabriel Wilson, who works in film.[5]

Writing

Wilson is the author of the following books:-

  • short story collection Schoom (Viking 1994) [6]
  • novel The Hiding Room [7]
  • novel A Palestine Affair [8]
  • story collection An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble (Nectbook/Schocken, 2007)
  • biography Marc Chagall (Nextbook/Schocken, 2007) [9]
  • Herzog: The Limits of Ideas Twayne,[10] and
  • On Bellow's Planet: Readings from the Dark Side[11]
  • Autobiography Kick and Run, Memoir with a Soccer Ball (Bloomsbury Reader, 2013) [12]

His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker,[13] the New York Times Magazine,[14] Best American Short Stories[15] and elsewhere. Wilson writes a column on soccer for the Internet Newspaper, The Faster Times [16]

Awards

A Palestine Affair was a finalist for the 2004 National Jewish Book Awards, and Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters) was a runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. He is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.[17]

Education

Ph.D., English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel, 1982
St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England, 1977
Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. Visiting Scholar, 1976
B.A., (Hons.) First Class. University of Essex, England, 1974. Major: English and European Literature. Minor: Art History

References

  1. ↑ Wilson's faculty profile at Tufts University
  2. ↑ Tuft's English department profiles
  3. ↑ Sharon Kaitz's website
  4. ↑ Archived 2010-01-12 at the Wayback Machine The Faster Times
  5. ↑ Gabriel Wilson on IMDB
  6. ↑ The Independent
  7. ↑ The Hiding Room on Barnes and Noble
  8. ↑ Barnes and Noble including clip from New York Times Review of novel
  9. ↑ Boston Globe Review
  10. ↑ Essay on Amazon
  11. ↑ Essay on Amazon Essay on Amazon
  12. ↑ Kick and Run on Amazon
  13. ↑ Wilson's work in The New Yorker
  14. ↑ Wilson's NYT Magazine Articles
  15. ↑ B&N Profile
  16. ↑ "TFT". Archived from the original on 12 January 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
  17. ↑ Random House lists awards
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