Harold Jaffe

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Harold Jaffe
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Born (1942-07-08) July 8, 1942 (age 81) [1]
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • editor
  • professor
EducationPh.D, English and American Literature
Alma mater Grinnell College (undergraduate studies) New York University (graduate studies)
Notable awards Pushcart Prize (three), National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Fiction (two), California Arts Council Grant in Fiction
Website
haroldjaffe.wordpress.com

Harold Jaffe (born July 8, 1942) is an American writer of novels, [2] short fiction, drama, and essays. He is the author of 30 books, including 14 collections of fiction, four novels, and two volumes of essays. He is also the editor of the literary-cultural journal Fiction International. [3] He has won two NEA grants in fiction and two Fulbright fellowships. His works have been translated into 15 languages, including German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. Jaffe is also a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

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Jaffe's fiction has appeared in such journals as Mississippi Review; City Lights Review; Paris Review; New Directions in Prose and Poetry; Chicago Review; Chelsea; Fiction; Central Park; Witness; Black Ice; Minnesota Review; Boundary 2; ACM; Black Warrior Review; Cream City Review; Two Girls’ Review; and New Novel Review. His fictions have also been anthologized in Pushcart Prize; Best American Stories; Best of American Humor; Storming the Reality Studio; American Made; Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation; After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology; Bateria and Am Lit (Germany); Borderlands (Mexico); Praz (Italy); Positive (Japan); and elsewhere.

The 2004 issue of The Journal of Experimental Fiction called “The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe” [4] was devoted to his writings.

Jaffe is well known for his technique of docufiction, a literary form that treats and fictionalizes news reports and other published data to expose their philosophical underpinnings, ambiguities, nuances, and hidden agendas. In addition to Docufiction, [5] both Guerilla Writing [6] and Unsituated Dialogue were literary terms Jaffe created. [7] [ circular reference ].

Works

Novels

Docufiction collections

Fiction collections

Essay collections

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References

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  2. ""Icons" are always more elastic than we think: An interview with Harold Jaffe".
  3. "Sleipnir Interview with Editor-in-Chief Harold Jaffe – Fiction International". 3 August 2014.
  4. "The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe: Essays and Interviews about Harold Jaffe (2004)". 24 January 2012.
  5. "On Harold Jaffe | Kenyon Review Online".
  6. "Harold Jaffe's Interview w/NotosOyku".
  7. Docufiction
  8. "Home". jaffeantijaffe.sdsu.edu.