Born in Brooklyn, New York on July 5, 1933. Married Annette Grant (fourth wife) on Dec. 18, 2004. Former wives: Naomi Miller, Elinor Berkman, Georgia Brown. Children: David, Nina, Noah and Nico. A.B (English) Brooklyn College, MFA (Playwriting) Columbia University, Ph.D (English and American Lit), Stanford University. Fellowships include Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Arts, Merrill. Invented in 1973 (with Peter Spielberg) Fiction Collective, the first fiction writers cooperative in America; reinvented in 1988 as FC2. An unintentionally well-kept secret among contemporary American novelists. Author of 14 books of fiction, including On The Way To My Father’s Funeral: New and Selected Stories, B, a novel, D-Tours, Separate Hours, Chez Charlotte and Emily, The Life and Times of Major Fiction, Reruns, Babble and A Man to Conjure With. Over 80 stories published in such places as Esquire, American Review, Tri Quarterly, Partisan Review, Antaeus, Iowa Review, and Boulevard. Anthologized in such places as Best American Short Stories, Byrnes Book of Great Pool Stories, All Our Secret Are the Same, O.Henry Prize Stories, Full Court: a Literary Anthology of Basketball, The Best of TriQuarterly, On The Couch: Great American Stories about Therapy. Author of The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in Contemporary American Fiction. Film Critic for Partisan Review; two time Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics.
