Jay Cantor (born 1948

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) is an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

and

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. He graduated from

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with a BA, and from

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with a Ph.D. He teaches at

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. He lives in

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, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace. His work appeared in ''The Harvard Crimson''. He was on the 2009 ArtScience Competition jury.

Awards

*1989

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Works

Novels

* ''The Death of Che Guevara'', Knopf, 1983, * ''Krazy Kat: a novel in five panels'', Knopf, 1988, *''Great Neck: a novel'', Knopf, 2003, * ''Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka'', Knopf, 2014,

Essays

* ''The Space Between: Literature and Politics'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, * ''On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother''. Knopf, 1991,

References

External links

"Jay Cantor talks about food"
''Cantabrigia''
"An Interview with Jay Cantor"
Ken Capobianco and Jay Cantor, ''Journal of Modern Literature'', Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 3–11

''The Review of Contemporary Fiction'', June 22, 2003, James Crossley {{DEFAULTSORT:Cantor, Jay 1948 births Writers from New York City 20th-century American novelists Harvard University alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni Tufts University faculty MacArthur Fellows Living people 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American male essayists 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Massachusetts