Jonathan Wilson (author)

Jonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
He is the Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate as well as the Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University. Within the English Department at Tufts, he teaches courses on Creative Writing 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
novel The Hiding Room
novel A Palestine Affair
story collection An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble
biography Marc Chagall Herzog: The Limits of Ideas Twayne, andOn Bellow's Planet: Readings from the Dark Side
Autobiography Kick and Run, Memoir with a Soccer Ball

His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Best American Short Stories 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 was a runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. He is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.

Education

Ph.D., English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel, 1982

St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England, 1977

Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. Visiting Scholar, 1976

B.A., First Class. University of Essex, England, 1974. Major: English and European Literature. Minor: Art History