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AbouttheAuthor J ay Neugeboren is the author of nineteen books, including two prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began), two award-winning books of nonfiction (Imagining Robert, Transforming Madness), and four collections of award-winning stories. His stories and essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and in more than fifty anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the only author to have won six consecutive Syndicated Fiction Prizes, and his novel, 1940, was long-listed for the 2009 International Impac Dublin Literary Prize. He lives in New York City. ...

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