About Jay Cantor
Born 1948. Jay Cantor is an American novelist and essayist.
Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist.
He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. He teaches at Tufts University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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 MacArthur Fellows Program
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,
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American novelist and essayist (1948-)
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