birth_place influences awards nationality birth_date article_title education name occupation alma_mater
new york , new york b. shusaku endo , antonio gramsci , clarice lispector , paul traven virilio , , walter benjamin , bertold brecht , pushcart the arts grant in fiction -lrb- two -rrb- , california prize arts council grant in fiction -lrb- three -rrb- , national endowment for american 08 july 1938 harold jaffe
 ph.d , english and american literature harold jaffe novelist , essayist , editor , professor grinnell -lrb- graduate studies -rrb- college -lrb- undergraduate studies -rrb- new york university
harold jaffe

harold jaffe -lrb- born july 8 , 1938 -rrb- is an american writer of novels , short fiction , drama and essays .
he is the author of 20 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 .
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 .
