Michael David Lukas

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Michael David Lukas
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Lukas at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco
Born (1979-03-30) March 30, 1979 (age 46)
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Michael David Lukas (born March 30, 1979) is an American author best known for his internationally bestselling novel, The Oracle of Stamboul, published by HarperCollins [1] and translated into over a dozen languages. [2] Michael's second novel, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, was published by Random House [3] in 2018 and received the Sami Rohr Prize [4] as well as the National Jewish Book Award. [5] He teaches at San Francisco State University. [6]

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His writing has been published in The New York Times, [7] Wall Street Journal, [8] and the San Francisco Chronicle. [9] He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey [2] and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Tunisia. [10] He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, [11] the Santa Maddalena Foundation, [12] and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. [13] Lukas has taught creative writing at 826 Valencia, [14] The Writers' Studio at Stanford University, [15] and the University of the Pacific. [16]

Personal life and education

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Michael David Lukas reading at the 2025 AWP Conference in Los Angeles

Lukas was born in 1979 in Berkeley, California, where he grew up with his four younger siblings.

Moving East to attend Brown University, [17] Lukas studied comparative literature and then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the creative writing program at the University of Maryland.

He currently lives in Oakland with his wife Haley and daughters Mona and Amira. [2]

Bibliography

Works
TitleYearFirst Published
When the News and the Novel Collide [7] 2013 The New York Times
A Multiplicity of Voices [18] 2013 The Millions
Fear and Loving in Cairo [8] 2012 The Wall Street Journal
Cutting It Close Makes the Trip Worthwhile [19] 2012The Wall Street Journal
How Should A person Be [9] 2012 SFGate
The Queen Of America [20] 2011SFGate
The Arrogant Years [21] 2011SFGate
Sympathy For The Pharaoh [22] 2011 Slate
Lessons From Third Grade [23] 2011 Publishers Weekly
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore [24] 2011San Francisco Chronicle
Workshopping War Literature [25] 2010 Virginia Quarterly Review
Friendly Fire [26] 2009Virginia Quarterly Review
Golems, Novelists, and Other Superheroes [27] 2009 Tikkun
How to Win a Cosmic War [28] 2009Virginia Quarterly Review
Destiny Disrupted [29] 2009San Francisco Chronicle
A Skeptic’s Guide to Passover [30] 2009Slate
Passover Miracles Meet Scientific Explanations [31] 2009 All Things Considered
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land [32] 2009San Francisco Chronicle
Mitzvah Mobile [33] 2008Slate
Al’ America [34] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
Question and Answer Men [17] 2003Brown Alumni Magazine
From A to X [35] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
Finding Nouf [36] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
Mirror of the Arab World [37] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
The Uncertain Hour [38] 2007San Francisco Chronicle
Forget The Quran [39] 2006Slate
Culinary Orientalism [40] 2007 The New York Times Magazine
Tortilla Dreams [41] 2006Diablo Magazine
Israel Vibration [42] 2005 Washington City Paper
Tourist Class [43] 2005Washington City Paper
The Commercial Campus [44] 2003 Providence Phoenix
My Summer Job [45] 2003Brown Alumni Magazine
My Daddy's War Story [46] In Posse Review
For True Bookies, a Wealth of Riches [47] 2002 The Boston Globe
A Writer’s Life [48] 2002Brown Alumni Magazine

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Stephenson, Neal. "Michael David Lukas". Harpercollins.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  2. 1 2 3 "Michael David Lukas - The Oracle of Stamboul". Book Passage. 2015-04-24. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  3. ↑ "Michael David Lukas". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. ↑ Paull, Laura (2019-05-01). "Oakland author Michael David Lukas wins Rohr Jewish literature prize". J. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  5. ↑ "Meet National Jewish Book Award Winner Michael David Lukas | Jewish Book Council". www.jewishbookcouncil.org. 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  6. ↑ "Michael David Lukas | Department of Creative Writing". creativewriting.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
  7. 1 2 "When the News and the Novel Collide". 14 October 2013.
  8. 1 2 Lukas, Michael (2012-12-21). "Fearlessness and Loving in Cairo". WSJ. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  9. 1 2 Lukas, Michael David (2012-06-27). "'How Should a Person Be?' by Sheila Heti". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  10. ↑ "Interview with Michael David Lukas - STEPHANiE ELiZONDO GRiEST STEPHANiE ELiZONDO GRiEST". Stephanieelizondogriest.com. 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  11. ↑ "Michael David Lukas | NEA". Arts.gov. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  12. ↑ "Michael David Lukas – Santa Maddalena Foundation". Santamaddalena.org. 2014-04-16. Archived from the original on 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  13. ↑ "Conference Staff | Middlebury". Middlebury.edu. 2015-03-01. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  14. ↑ "The Hero's Journey". 826 Valencia. Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  15. ↑ "Prior Course Details". Continuingstudies.stanford.edu. 2015-04-13. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  16. ↑ "English Department Visiting Professor: Michael David Lukas | The Pacifican". Thepacificanonline.com. 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  17. 1 2 "Question & Answer Men". Brown Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  18. ↑ "A Multiplicity of Voices: On the Polyphonic Novel". The Millions. 15 February 2013. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  19. ↑ "Cutting It Close Makes the Trip Worthwhile | 18|8 FINE MEN'S SALONS". Eighteeneight.com. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  20. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2011-12-04). "'Queen of America,' by Luis Alberto Urrea". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  21. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2011-09-04). "'The Arrogant Years,' by Lucette Lagnado". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  22. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2011-04-18). "Pharaoh's "hardened heart": Passover and the nature of biblical justice". Slate.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  23. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2011-02-14). "Lessons From Third Grade: The Cure For Writer's Block". Publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  24. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2011-02-02). "'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore' review". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  25. ↑ Jackson, Greg (2010-04-01). "Workshopping the Next Generation of American War Literature". VQR Online. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  26. ↑ Jackson, Greg (2009-09-11). "Dispatches from the Mother of the World". VQR Online. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  27. ↑ "Golems, Novelists, and other Superheroes | Tikkun Magazine". Tikkun.org. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  28. ↑ Jackson, Greg (2009-05-05). "Engaging Islam in the Age of Obama". VQR Online. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  29. ↑ "'Destiny Disrupted,' by Tamim Ansary". SFGate. 2009-05-10. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  30. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2009-04-08). "Scientific explanations for the parting of the Red Sea, the 10 plagues, and the burning bush". Slate.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  31. ↑ "Passover Miracles Meet Scientific Explanations". NPR. 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  32. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2009-02-08). "'We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land'". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  33. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2008-12-19). "Celebrating Hanukkah with menorah parades". Slate.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  34. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2008-11-08). "Nonfiction review: Curiel's 'Al' America'". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  35. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2008-09-28). "John Berger's 'From A to X'". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  36. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2008-06-15). "Detectives in the desert". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  37. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2008-03-22). "Review: Studying Lebanon to unlock Middle East". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  38. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2007-06-17). "Eloquent rendering of Petronius' honor suicide". SFGate. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  39. ↑ Lukas, Michael David (2006-12-06). "Claudia Roden's new cookbook, Arabesque, an excellent primer on the Middle East". Slate.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  40. ↑ Fasman, Jon (9 December 2007). "Culinary Orientalism". The New York Times.
  41. ↑ "Tortilla Dreams - Diablo Magazine - August 2006 - East Bay - California". Diablomag.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  42. ↑ Lukas, Michael (2005-08-05). "Israel Vibration". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  43. ↑ Lukas, Michael (2005-03-04). "Tourist Class". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  44. ↑ Lukas, Michael David. "Features | The commercial campus". Providencephoenix.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  45. ↑ "My Summer Job".
  46. ↑ "Poetry And Prose From In Posse Review". Webdelsol.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  47. ↑ HighBeam
  48. ↑ "A Writer's Life". Brown Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  49. ↑ "Past Winners - Fiction". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  50. ↑ Moore, Ninah (2019-01-27). "Sophie Brody Medal". News and Press Center. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  51. ↑ "Winners". Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
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