Daniel Asa Rose Explained

Daniel Asa Rose (born November 20, 1949) is an American author, journalist, critic, and editor. His writing is known for its themes of family, memory, and Jewish identity.

Early life and education

Born in Brooklyn, New York to Anne (née Kaufman) and Gilbert Rose, Rose grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut.

He graduated from Brown University in 1971 with a degree in English.[1]

Career

Rose's first published short story, "Small Family with Rooster," ran in The New Yorker in 1977.[2]

His short story "The Goodbye Present" received an O. Henry Award in 1980.[3]

In 1987, he published his first novel, Flipping For It.[4] A black comedy about divorce, it was named a New York Times New and Noteworthy Paperback.

Rose published his short story collection Small Family With Rooster in 1988.[5] He received PEN Fiction Awards for two stories in the collection.

In 2000, Rose published Hiding Places: A Father and his Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape From the Holocaust, a memoir that intermingles a taut current-day search for the hiding places that saved his family in World War II with memories of his own hiding places growing up in suburban 1950s Connecticut.[6] It earned starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, as well as the New England Booksellers Discovery Award and inclusion in the collection Best Jewish Writing 2003.[7] [8]

In 2006, he received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowments for the Arts, alongside Jhumpa Lahiri.[9]

In 2010, Rose published Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life.[10] A comic memoir about medical tourism, it was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year.[11]

In May 2014, The Wrap reported that Richard Linklater was adapting Larry's Kidney into a feature film starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, though Linklater later told IndieWire that the project was no longer moving ahead due to a lack of funding.[12] [13]

In 2023, Rose's memoir Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert was published by High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press.[14] The Albuquerque Journal ranked it as one of the best memoirs of the year.[15]

Rose has also served as arts & culture editor of The Forward, editor of Barbara Probst Solomon's literary magazine The Reading Room, and writer-in-residence at Western Connecticut State University's Creative and Professional Writing MFA program.[16]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

Memoirs

Personal

Rose lives in Connecticut. He has four sons, including actor Jeremy Roth-Rose.[17]

References

  1. Web site: Theses & Dissertaions . 2023-04-27 . Brown University Library.
  2. 1977-12-19 . Small Family With Rooster . 2023-04-26 . The New Yorker . en-US.
  3. Book: Prize stories 1980: the O. Henry awards . 1980 . Doubleday & Co. . en.
  4. Book: Rose, Daniel Asa . Flipping for it . 1987 . St. Martin's Press . 0-312-00124-X . 1st . New York . 14587518.
  5. Book: Rose, Daniel Asa . Small family with rooster: stories . 1988 . St. Martin's Press . 0-312-01826-6 . New York . 17413617.
  6. Book: Rose, Daniel Asa . Hiding places: a father and his sons retrace their family's escape from the Holocaust . 2000 . Mazal Holocaust Collection . 0-684-85478-3 . New York . 43324260.
  7. Web site: Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust by Daniel Asa Rose . 2023-04-26 . www.publishersweekly.com.
  8. Book: Hiding Places Kirkus Reviews . en.
  9. Web site: Daniel Asa Rose . 2023-04-26 . www.arts.gov . en.
  10. Book: Rose, Daniel Asa . Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in China with my black sheep cousin and his mail-order bride, skirting the law to get him a transplant-- and save his life . 2009 . William Morrow . 978-0-06-170870-1 . 1st . New York . 262884335.
  11. Web site: Book awards: Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year LibraryThing . 2023-04-27 . LibraryThing.com . en.
  12. Web site: 2014-05-16 . Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis to Star in 'Larry's Kidney' for Richard Linklater . 2023-04-26 . en-US.
  13. Web site: Kohn . Eric . 2014-07-09 . 'Boyhood' Director Richard Linklater Explains Why It's Harder Than Ever to Make Movies Today (Part 2) . 2023-04-26 . IndieWire . en.
  14. Book: Rose, Daniel Asa . Truth or Consequences: improbable adventures, a near-death experience, and unexpected redemption in the New Mexico desert . 2023 . 978-0-8263-6479-1 . Albuquerque . 1340037934.
  15. Web site: 'Truth or Consequences' ranks as one of the best memoirs of the year - Albuquerque Journal . 2023-05-30 . www.abqjournal.com. 28 May 2023 .
  16. Web site: Faculty – MFA Creative & Professional Writing . 2023-04-26 . www.wcsu.edu . en.
  17. Web site: Jeremy Roth-Rose . 2023-04-26 . IMDb . en-US.

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