birth_date: 1933-01-02 00:00:00
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name: Leonard Michaels
about: Leonard Michaels was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.Going Places, his first book of short stories, made his reputation as one of the most brilliant of that era's fiction writers; the stories are urban, funny, and written in a private, hectic diction that gives them a remarkable edge. The follow-up, coming six years later (Michaels was perhaps not prolific enough to build a widely popular career), was I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, a collection as strong as the first. Leonard Michaels was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.Going Places, his first book of short stories, made his reputation as one of the most brilliant of that era's fiction writers; the stories are urban, funny, and written in a private, hectic diction that gives them a remarkable edge. The follow-up, coming six years later (Michaels was perhaps not prolific enough to build a widely popular career), was I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, a collection as strong as the first. ...more
death_date: 2003-05-10 00:00:00