Ehud Havazelet

Ehud Havazelet (July 13, 1955 – November 5, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Ehud Havazelet
Born(1955-07-13)July 13, 1955
Jerusalem, Israel
DiedNovember 5, 2015(2015-11-05) (aged 60)
Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreLiterary fiction

Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and emeritus professor at Yeshiva University, emigrated to the United States in 1957.[1] He graduated from Columbia University in 1977, and received an M.F.A at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1984. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University from 1984 to 1989. He taught creative writing at Oregon State University from 1989 to 1999. He began teaching at the University of Oregon in 1999 and held the position of Professor of Creative Writing at the time of his death in 2015.[2][3]

Honors

Works

Books

  • What Is It Then Between Us? (short stories), Scribner, 1988.
  • Like Never Before, (short stories), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.
  • Bearing the Body, (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Anthologies

  • "Gurov in Manhattan". The Best American Short Stories 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 978-0-547-24208-8. best american short stories 2011.
    • (Originally published in TriQuarterly)

Short Stories

  • "Law of Return". Ploughshares. Emerson College. Winter 2007–2008.
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References

  1. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.
  2. "Ehud Havazelet." Writers Directory, 24th ed. St. James Press, 2008
  3. "Ehud Havazelet, Oregon Book Award winner and UO professor, died Nov. 5". OregonLive.com.
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