Jonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in

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. He is the Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate as well as the Director of the Center for Humanities at

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. Within the English Department at Tufts, he teaches courses on

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and contemporary American Fiction. He lives with his wife, Sharon Kaitz, who is an artist. He has two sons, Adam Wilson, a journalist and writer and Gabriel Wilson, who works in film.

Writing

Wilson is the author of the following books:- * short story collection ''Schoom'' (Viking 1994) * novel ''The Hiding Room'' * novel ''A Palestine Affair'' * story collection ''An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble'' (Nectbook/Schocken, 2007) * biography '' Marc Chagall'' (Nextbook/Schocken, 2007) * ''Herzog: The Limits of Ideas Twayne'', and * ''On Bellow's Planet: Readings from the Dark Side'' * Autobiography ''Kick and Run, Memoir with a Soccer Ball'' (Bloomsbury Reader, 2013) His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine,

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and elsewhere. Wilson writes a column on soccer for the Internet Newspaper, ''The Faster Times''

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.Random House lists awards
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Education

Ph.D., English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel, 1982
St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England, 1977

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, New York, U.S.A. Visiting Scholar, 1976
B.A., (Hons.) First Class.

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, England, 1974. Major: English and European Literature. Minor: Art History

References

External links

Jonathan Wilson's Tufts Faculty Page

Wilson's profile on The Faster Times

Wilson's Random House profile
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