Personal Bio
My parents grew up in New York City, my mother the daughter of a hat manufacturer, my father the son of a famous Orthodox rabbi who lived in the U.S. for fifty years and never learned any English. My mother: a secular Jew who went to Bryn Mawr College and Yale Law School. My father: a law professor at Columbia who attended Yeshiva University and fought in World War II and who has remained religiously observant. I am the product of these varied backgrounds, and of this happy marriage.
, teaching writing, and the writing life.
