David Galef
American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Adam Galef is an American fiction writer, critic, poet, translator, and essayist. Born in the Bronx, he grew up in Scarsdale. 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. In 1992, he married Beth Weinhouse. From 1989 to 2008, he was a professor of English at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where he administered the M.F.A. program in creative writing until 2007. David Galef and his family currently live in Montclair, where he is an English professor and director of the creative writing program at Montclair State University.
David Galef's Published Works
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- The Self-Annihilating Artists of Pale Fire (1985) (18)
- The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (1993) (15)
- Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading (2000) (13)
- Crossing Over: Authors Who Write Both Children's and Adults' Fiction (2009) (12)
- What's the Word? (2006) (10)
- I wouldn't want anybody to know : native English teaching in Japan (2003) (10)
- A Sense of Magic: Reality and Illusion in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1984) (4)
- The Fashion Show in Ulysses (1991) (4)
- Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (2016) (4)
- ‘What is Done in Youth’: Sibling Rivalry in Elizabeth Gaskell's ‘The Old Nurse's Story’ (2014) (3)
- Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom (2012) (3)
- "Even monkeys fall from trees" and other Japanese proverbs (1988) (2)
- Resemblance and Change in Wallace Stevens' Three Academic Pieces (1986) (2)
- Writing Wrongs: Revising a Children's Book Manuscript (2009) (1)
- JOYCE, THE VICONIAN CYCLIST (1993) (1)
- The Poetry of a Grown Man: Constancy and Transition in the Works of James Wright. (1989) (1)
- Fragments of a journey: The drama in T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes (1988) (1)
- What ethics? Whose review? (2002) (1)
- KEEPING ONE'S DISTANCE: IRONY AND DOUBLING IN "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" (2016) (1)
- Reading for Suppression (1999) (1)
- You Aren't What You Eat: Anita Brookner's Dilemma (1994) (1)
- What's Literally in Joyce (2018) (1)
- Getting Even: Literary Posterity and the Case for Woody Allen (1999) (1)
- Freud's wife. (2004) (1)
- The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing (2003) (0)
- You've got to be cruel to be kind: the life of Roald Dahl (1996) (0)
- Ira B. Nadel (ed.), Ezra Pound in Context. (2012) (0)
- Intermission: Cutting Down (2016) (0)
- Craving Oblivion (1988) (0)
- FICTION IN REVIEW (2019) (0)
- How to Cope With Suburban Stress (2006) (0)
- Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk (2000) (0)
- A Short Introduction (2016) (0)
- Ralph Walks, Theory Talks (1999) (0)
- FICTION IN REVIEW: GEORGE SAUNDERS (2014) (0)
- MRS WOOLF AND MR BROWNE (1989) (0)
- FICTION IN REVIEW : COLM TOIBIN (2008) (0)
- From Plagiarism to Appropriation (1993) (0)
- FICTION IN REVIEW: KAREN RUSSELL (2015) (0)
- それにしても、文学と言えるのですか?アメリカにおけるクリエイティブ・ライティングワークショップ (2008) (0)
- Self and Other (2009) (0)
- A Japanese Wilde (2014) (0)
- Singh, G., Ezra Pound as Critic. Pp. xii + 176. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. £35.00 (1995) (0)
- My Date With Neanderthal Woman (2011) (0)
- What Is Poetry? (2011) (0)
- Road to Recovery (2014) (0)
- Nabokov in Fat City (2010) (0)
- The Fate of Critical Terms (2006) (0)
- A Portrait of the Editor as a Muggle (2010) (0)
- Comic Prose (2021) (0)
- "Making Every Word Count." A Chat With David Galef, Author of Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (2020) (0)
- Soliloquies, Rants, Riffs, and Themes (2016) (0)
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