CONTEMPORARY Jewish-American Novelists

A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Edited by JOEL SHATZKY AND MICHAEL TAUB

With a foreword by Daniel Walden

Emmanuel S. Nelson, Advisory Editor

Greenwood Press Westport, Connecticut London Contents

Foreword by Daniel Walden xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction by Sanford E. Marovitz xix Walter Abish by Leonard Orr 1 Max Apple by Jerome Klinkowitz 8 Paul Auster by Martine Chard-Hutchinson 13 Jonathan Baumbach by Marilyn Metzcher Smith 21 Saul Bellow by Pirjo Ahokas 28 Melvin Bukiet by Sanford Pinsker 41 Arthur Allen Cohen by Claire R. Satlof 46 E. L. Doctorow by Sabine Sauter 54 viii Contents

Stanley Elkin by Peter J. Bailey 64 Richard Elman by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 78 Leslie Epstein by Irene C. Goldman 81 Irvin Faust by Richard Kostelanetz 87 Bruce Jay Friedman by Harold Heft 92 Sanford Friedman by Joel Shatzky 97 Thomas Friedmann by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 101 Daniel Fuchs by Gabriel Miller 103 Merrill Joan Gerber by Becky Spiro Green 110 Herbert Gold by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 116 Gloria Goldreich by Lois Rubin 120 Paul Goodman by Leonard Rogoff 128 Gerald Green by James Berger 140 Joseph Heller by David Buehrer 145 Mark Helprin by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 154 Carolivia Herron by Brenna J. Ryan 156 Laura Z. Hobson by Mashey Bernstein 160 Judith Katz by Ludger Brinker 166 Julius Lester by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 174 Contents ix

Meyer Levin by Mashey Bernstein 178 Phillip Lopate by Diane Stevenson 185 Norman Mailer by Eberhard Alsen 192 Bernard Malamud by Sanford Pinsker 204 Wallace Markfield by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 215 Daphne Merkin by Carolyn Ariella Sofia 218 Faye Stollman Moskowitz by Myrna Goldenberg 223 Jay Neugeboren by Steven Goldleaf 228 Hugh Nissenson by Andrew Furman 234 Tillie Olsen by Karen L. Polster 242 Cynthia Ozick by Suzanne Klingenstein 252 Grace Paley by Thomas Frank 264 Marge Piercy by Holli Levitsky 275 Chaim Potok by 5. Lillian Kremer 284 Lev Raphael by Ludger Brinker 295 Tova Reich by Blossom S. Kirschenbaum 305 Mordecai Richler by Esther Frank and Joel Shatzky 314 Lucy (Gabrielle) Rosenthal by Diane Stevenson 321 Henry Roth by Hana Wirth-Nesher 327 x Contents

Philip Roth by Mark Shechner 335 Budd Schulberg by Seth Barron 355 Alix Kates Shulman by Frances Flannery-Dailey 363 Roberta Silman by Judy Epstein 371 Jo Sinclair by Elisabeth Sandberg 375 David Slavitt by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 385 Susan Sontag by Evan J. Nisonson 389 Art Spiegelman by Sara R. Horowitz 400 Gertrude Stein by Richard Kostelanetz 409 Steve Stern . by Mark Shechner 414 Barry Targan by Michael Huff 422 Meredith Tax by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 428 Lionel Trilling by Hannah Berliner Fischthal 430 Leon Uris by Bennett Lovett-Graff 439 Edward Lewis Wallant by Mark Zaitchik and Lisa Jucknath 448 Jerome Weidman by Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub 457 Herman Wouk by Laurence W. Mazzeno 460 Appendix by Dorothy Shatzky 469 Selected Bibliography 473 Index 477 About the Editors and Contributors 501