David Galef
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David Galef (born March 27, 1959) is a fiction writer, critic, poet, translator, and essayist. He has published thirteen books: the novels Flesh, Turning Japanese, and How to Cope with Suburban Stress; the short-story collection Laugh Track; two children’s books, The Little Red Bicycle and Tracks; two translations of Japanese proverbs, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees and Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk; a work of literary criticism, The Supporting Cast; an edited anthology of essays called Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading; a critical edition of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles; a co-edited anthology of fiction called 20 over 40; and, most recently, the poetry collection Flaws and the poetry chapbook Lists. In addition, he has written over seventy short stories for magazines ranging from the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International and the American Shenandoah. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Village Voice, Twentieth Century Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel, and many other places. His awards include a Henfield Foundation grant, a Writers Exchange award from Poets & Writers, and a Mississippi Arts Council grant, as well as residencies at Yaddo and Ragdale.
Born in the Bronx on March 27, 1959, he grew up in Scarsdale, NY. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1981, after which he lived in Osaka, Japan, for a year. He received an M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in literature in 1989. Since 1989, he has been a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he administered the M.F.A. program in creative writing until 2007.
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[edit] Works
- Novels
- Flesh. New York: The Permanent Press, 1995. Russian translation rights sold, 2007.
- Turning Japanese. New York: The Permanent Press, 1998.
- How to Cope with Suburban Stress. New York: The Permanent Press, 2006. Russian translation rights and film option sold, 2007. Listed under List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
- Short-Story Collection
- Laugh Track. Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
- Poetry Collections
- Flaws. Cincinnati, OH: David Roberts Books, 2007.
- Lists. Indian Trail, NC: D-N Publishing, 2007.
- Children’s Books
- The Little Red Bicycle. Illus. Carol Nicklaus. New York: Random House, 1988.
- Tracks. Illus. Tedd Arnold. New York: William Morrow, 1996. Rpt.by Junior Library Guild, 1996, and Scholastic (paperback and audio tape), 1996.
- Translations
- Even Monkeys Fall from Trees: The Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Proverbs. Illus. Jun Hashimoto. Tokyo: Tuttle, 2000. Rpt. of Even Monkeys Fall from Trees, and Other Japanese Proverbs. 1987.
- Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk: More Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Proverbs. Illus. Jun Hashimoto. Tokyo: Tuttle, 2000.
- Criticism
- Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. [Editor and contributor.]
- The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
- Anthology
- 20 over 40. Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi, 2006. [Co-editor with Beth Weinhouse.]
- Edition
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005. [Editor.]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Contemporary Authors. Vol. 145. Ed. Kathleen J. Edgar. Gale Research, 1995. 151.
- World Authors 1990-1995, ed. Clifford Thompson (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1999). 241-43.
- Mississippi Writers Page, http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/galef_David/index.html
- Interview with David Galef
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[edit] Further reading
[edit] Reviews of Galef's books
- The Supporting Cast
- English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, by 37.1 (1994): 104-6. By J. H. Stape.
- Choice Oct. 1993: 288. By J. E. Steiner.
- Notes and Queries 41.4 (Dec. 1994): 288-89. By Elisabeth Jay.
- South Central Review 11.4 (Winter 1994): 65-66. By David H. Lynn.
- Flesh
- The New York Times Book Review 21 May 1995: [2]
- Turning Japanese
- The New York Times Book Review 15 Nov. 1998: [3]
- Laugh Track
- The New York Times Book Review 11 Aug. 2002: [4]
- How to Cope with Suburban Stress

