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Leonard Michaels. Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 – May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, and a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
May 9, 2024 · Leonard Michaels (born January 2, 1933, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 10, 2003, Berkeley, California) was an American short-story writer, novelist, and essayist known for his compelling urban tales of whimsy and tragedy.
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May 13, 2003 · Leonard Michaels, a novelist and short-story writer whose precise, highly literary style illuminated weirdly realistic human predicaments, died on Saturday in Berkeley, Calif. He was 70 and had...
May 10, 2003 · 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 ...
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Leonard Michaels is as well known for his 1981 novel The Men’s Club as he is for his much admired short-story collections. He was also the author of the autobiographical To Feel These...
Apr 7, 2022 · Reading Leonard Michaels, the great story writer and essayist, brings Beckett to mind. “Windows were open. The breeze smelled of reasons to live,” says one Michaels narrator, evoking hope, weariness, acceptance. Often, Michaels seems tied to Beckett by a metaphysical thread.
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Aug 4, 2020 · That paradoxical pull is what the great short story writer and novelist Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933–May 10, 2003) explores in one of his least known, loveliest and quietest masterpieces, simply titled A Cat (public library) — a posy of prose poems, of miniature meditations playful and profound, on the imponderable nature of our feline ...
