Novelist Alan Lelchuk

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Alan Lelchuk is a novelist, professor, and editor from Brooklyn, New
York. He received his B.A. in World Literature from Brooklyn College
in 1960, studied at University College in 1962-63, and received his M.A.
in 1963 and Ph.D. in 1965, both in English and from Stanford
University. His novels are American Mischief, Miriam at Thirty-Four,
Shrinking: The Beginning of My Own Ending, Miriam in Her Forties,
Brooklyn Boy, Playing the Game, and Ziff: A Life? He co-edited 8 Great
Hebrew Short Novels and has written, for young adults, On Home
Ground. His work has been translated into more than half a dozen
foreign languages, including Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew,
Hungarian, J apanese, Russian, and Spanish.
His short fiction has appeared in such publications as Transatlantic Review, The Atlantic, Modern Occasions,
The Boston Globe Magazine, and Partisan Review. Significant critical studies on Lelchuk have been Philip
Roth in Esquire, Wilfrid Sheed in Book-of-the-Month Club News, Bejmain DeMott in The Atlantic, Mordechai
Richler in the Chicago Tribune, Robert Towers in The New York Times, and Steven Birkets in The New
Republic.
He began teaching at Brandeis University in 1966, was Visiting Writer for two years at Amherst College, from
19821984, and has been a member of the Dartmouth College faculty since 1985.
Some awards, honors, and citations include: a Yaddo Foundation Grant in 1968, 1969, 1971, and 1973, a
MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1969 and 1974, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 1976-1977, and
Fulbright Writer-in-Residence at the University of Haifa, Israel in 1986-1987. In 1999-2000 he was the
recipient of the Otto Salgo Chair in American Literature and Writing at Etvs Lornd University (ELTE) in
Budapest, Hungary and in 2003-2004 he received a Fulbright Scholar's Grant and taught at the International
University of Moscow. Since 2005, he is a Fulbright Senior Specialist Professor, giving seminars in fiction
writing and American Literature at Moscow State University, Universita di Napoli (Naples, Italy), and Die Freie
Universitt, Berlin.
He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Rome, New York City College, and been in
residence at Mishkenot Sha'ananim in J erusalem. He has given readings and lectures at numerous institutions
such as Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Brandeis University, the Boston Public
Library, Boston University, Amherst College, and the American Cultural Center (Tel Aviv, Israel).
His manuscripts are housed as "The Alan Lelchuk Manuscript Collection" in the Howard Gotlieb Research
Center in the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University. In 1994 he co-founded Steerforth Press, and is a
member of the independent publisher's editorial board.
He lives in the countryside of New Hampshire.
Houghton Mifflin Publishing
Dartmouth College J ewish Studies Department
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