Jonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in Newton, Massachusetts. He is the Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate as well as the Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University.Wilson's faculty profile at Tufts University Within the English Department at Tufts, he teaches courses on Creative Writing and contemporary American Fiction.Tuft's English department profiles He lives with his wife, Sharon Kaitz, Sharon Kaitz's website who is an artist. He has two sons, Adam Wilson, a journalist and writer The Faster Times and Gabriel Wilson, who works in film. Gabriel Wilson on IMDB
Writing Wilson is the author of the following books:- short story collection Schoom (Viking 1994) The Independent novel The Hiding Room The Hiding Room on Barnes and Noble novel A Palestine Affair Barnes and Noble including clip from New York Times Review of novel story collection An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble (Nectbook/Schocken, 2007) biography Marc Chagall (Nextbook/Schocken, 2007) Boston Globe Review Herzog: The Limits of Ideas Twayne,Essay on Amazon and On Bellow's Planet: Readings from the Dark SideEssay on Amazon Essay on Amazon Autobiography Kick and Run, Memoir with a Soccer Ball (Bloomsbury Reader, 2013) Kick and Run on Amazon His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Wilson's work in The New Yorker the New York Times Magazine, Wilson's NYT Magazine Articles Best American Short Stories B&N Profile and elsewhere. Wilson writes a column on soccer for the Internet Newspaper, The Faster Times
Awards A Palestine Affair was a finalist for the 2004 National Jewish Book Awards, and Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters) was a runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. He is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.Random House lists awards
Education Ph.D., English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel, 1982 St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England, 1977 Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. Visiting Scholar, 1976 B.A., (Hons.) First Class. University of Essex, England, 1974. Major: English and European Literature. Minor: Art History
References
External links Jonathan Wilson's Tufts Faculty Page
Wilson's Random House profile