Robert Anthony Siegel is an American writer and professor. He is the author of two novels and numerous short stories and essays, and has been recognized with O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes among other awards. He is currently an instructor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Creative Writing Department.
A native New Yorker, Siegel was born, raised, and educated on Manhattan. While in high school, he began the study of both Japanese and judo, becoming fluent in the former and a champion in the latter. For his undergraduate education, he attended Harvard University, where he majored in East Asian studies and spent his junior year in Tokyo. He returned to Japan following graduation and studied Comparative Literature at the University of Tokyo on a Mombukagakusho Fellowship. In the early 1990s, he studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he received his MFA. The year after that, he was in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on a writing fellowship at The Fine Arts Work Center.
In 1997, his first novel All the Money in the World was published. This was followed in 2007 by his second, All Will Be Revealed. An essay collection, Criminals, was published by Counterpoint Press in 2018. [1] His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Oxford American, The Paris Review, and Tin House, among other venues.
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