Jay Cantor Explained

Jay Cantor
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Education:	Harvard University (BA) University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD)
Spouse:	Melinda Marble
Children:	1

Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist.

He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D.He teaches at Tufts University.^[1] He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace.^[2]

His work appeared in The Harvard Crimson.^[3] He was on the 2009 ArtScience Competition jury.^[4]

Awards

• 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

Novels

• The Death of Che Guevara, Knopf, 1983,
• Krazy Kat: a novel in five panels, Knopf, 1988,
• Great Neck: a novel, Knopf, 2003, ^[5]
• Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka, Knopf, 2014,

Essays

• The Space Between: Literature and Politics, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982,
• On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother. Knopf, 1991,

External links

• "Jay Cantor talks about food", Cantabrigia
• "An Interview with Jay Cantor", Ken Capobianco and Jay Cantor, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 3–11
• "Jay Cantor. Great Neck. (Book Review)", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22, 2003, James Crossley

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tufts University: English Department . Ase.tufts.edu . 2012-09-27.
2. Web site: Jay Cantor Author Bookshelf - Random House - Books - Audiobooks - Ebooks . Random House . 2012-09-27.
3. Web site: Cantor . Jay . Jay Cantor | Writer Profile | The Harvard Crimson . Thecrimson.com . 2012-09-27.
4. http://www.artscience100k.org/prize/jury.html
5. Web site: Cantor . Jay . Random House, Inc. Academic Resources | Great Neck by Jay Cantor . Randomhouse.com . 2004-08-10 . 2012-09-27.