Nathan Englander, 50, has penned two highly acclaimed compilations of short stories: For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. In 2012, he received the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, for the latter collection. Also, he has authored the novels kaddish.com, The Ministry of Special Cases, and Dinner at the Center of the Earth. Englander’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post.
Quote: “I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis, and I think in Yiddish. To this day, I have to go back and unravel my writing and polish it so everyone doesn’t sound like an old Jewish woman.”
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