Jay Neugeboren
Jay Neugeboren is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
Education
Jay Neugeboren was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Flatbush. He went to P.S. 246, Walt Whitman Junior High School and Erasmus Hall High School. He received a B.A. in 1959 from Columbia College and an M.A. in 1963 from Indiana [University Bloomington], where he was a University Fellow.Career
He is the author of 24 books. He has won numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.He has taught at Columbia University, Indiana University, Stanford University, the State University of New York at Old Westbury and the University of Freiburg. For many years, he was a professor and writer in residence at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Awards
His novella, “Corky’s Brother,” won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award. He has had stories in more than 50 anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and Penguin Modern Stories.He has won prizes for his fiction, and non-fiction. He is the only writer to have won six consecutive P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards.
His screenplay for The Hollow Boy (American Playhouse, PBS, 1991, was chosen best screenplay of the year by the Los Angeles Times and the Houston Film Festival.