Michael David Lukas Explained

Michael David Lukas (born March 30, 1979) is an American author best known for his internationally bestselling novel, The Oracle of Stamboul, published by HarperCollins[1] and translated into over a dozen languages.[2] Michael's second novel, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, was published by Random House[3] in 2018 and received the Sami Rohr Prize[4] as well as the National Jewish Book Award.[5] He teaches at San Francisco State University.[6]

His writing has been published in The New York Times,[7] Wall Street Journal,[8] and the San Francisco Chronicle.[9] He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey[2] and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Tunisia.[10] He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,[11] the Santa Maddalena Foundation,[12] and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.[13] Lukas has taught creative writing at 826 Valencia,[14] The Writers' Studio at Stanford University,[15] and the University of the Pacific.[16]

Personal life and education

Lukas was born in 1979 in Berkeley, California, where he grew up with his four younger siblings.

Moving East to attend Brown University,[17] Lukas studied comparative literature and then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the creative writing program at the University of Maryland.

He currently lives in Oakland with his wife Haley and daughters Mona and Amira.[2]

Bibliography

Works! Title! Year! First Published
When the News and the Novel Collide2013The New York Times
A Multiplicity of Voices[18] 2013The Millions
Fear and Loving in Cairo2012The Wall Street Journal
Cutting It Close Makes the Trip Worthwhile[19] 2012The Wall Street Journal
How Should A person Be2012SFGate
The Queen Of America[20] 2011SFGate
The Arrogant Years[21] 2011SFGate
Sympathy For The Pharaoh[22] 2011Slate
Lessons From Third Grade[23] 2011Publishers Weekly
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore[24] 2011San Francisco Chronicle
Workshopping War Literature[25] 2010Virginia Quarterly Review
Friendly Fire[26] 2009Virginia Quarterly Review
Golems, Novelists, and Other Superheroes[27] 2009Tikkun
How to Win a Cosmic War[28] 2009Virginia Quarterly Review
Destiny Disrupted[29] 2009San Francisco Chronicle
A Skeptic’s Guide to Passover[30] 2009Slate
Passover Miracles Meet Scientific Explanations[31] 2009All Things Considered
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land[32] 2009San Francisco Chronicle
Mitzvah Mobile[33] 2008Slate
Al’ America[34] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
Question and Answer Men2003Brown Alumni Magazine
From A to X[35] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
Finding Nouf[36] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
Mirror of the Arab World[37] 2008San Francisco Chronicle
The Uncertain Hour[38] 2007San Francisco Chronicle
Forget The Quran[39] 2006Slate
Culinary Orientalism[40] 2007The New York Times Magazine
Tortilla Dreams[41] 2006Diablo Magazine
Israel Vibration[42] 2005Washington City Paper
Tourist Class[43] 2005Washington City Paper
The Commercial Campus[44] 2003Providence Phoenix
My Summer Job[45] 2003Brown Alumni Magazine
My Daddy's War Story[46] In Posse Review
For True Bookies, a Wealth of Riches[47] 2002The Boston Globe
A Writer’s Life[48] 2002Brown Alumni Magazine

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Neal . Stephenson . Michael David Lukas . Harpercollins.com . 2015-06-20.
  2. Web site: Michael David Lukas - The Oracle of Stamboul . Book Passage . 2015-04-24 . 2015-06-20.
  3. Web site: Michael David Lukas. 2021-01-05. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US.
  4. Web site: Paull. Laura. 2019-05-01. Oakland author Michael David Lukas wins Rohr Jewish literature prize. 2021-01-07. J.. en-US.
  5. Web site: 2019-02-27. Meet National Jewish Book Award Winner Michael David Lukas Jewish Book Council. 2021-01-07. www.jewishbookcouncil.org. en.
  6. Web site: Michael David Lukas Department of Creative Writing. 2021-01-07. creativewriting.sfsu.edu.
  7. Web site: When the News and the Novel Collide. 14 October 2013.
  8. Web site: Lukas. Michael . Fearlessness and Loving in Cairo . WSJ . 2012-12-21 . 2015-06-20.
  9. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . 'How Should a Person Be?' by Sheila Heti . SFGate . 2012-06-27 . 2015-06-20.
  10. Web site: Interview with Michael David Lukas - STEPHANiE ELiZONDO GRiEST STEPHANiE ELiZONDO GRiEST . Stephanieelizondogriest.com . 2011-02-08 . 2015-06-20.
  11. Web site: Michael David Lukas | NEA . Arts.gov . 2015-06-20.
  12. Web site: Michael David Lukas – Santa Maddalena Foundation . Santamaddalena.org . 2014-04-16 . 2015-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150320065510/http://www.santamaddalena.org/2014/04/michael-david-lukas/ . 2015-03-20 . dead .
  13. Web site: Conference Staff | Middlebury . Middlebury.edu . 2015-03-01 . 2015-06-20.
  14. Web site: The Hero's Journey . 826 Valencia . 2015-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150416080714/http://826valencia.org/2014-05-21-the-heros-journey/ . 2015-04-16 . dead .
  15. Web site: Prior Course Details . Continuingstudies.stanford.edu . 2015-04-13 . 2015-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305163935/https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/prior/20142_WSP-103 . 2016-03-05 .
  16. Web site: English Department Visiting Professor: Michael David Lukas | The Pacifican . Thepacificanonline.com . 2015-05-09 . 2015-06-20.
  17. Web site: Question & Answer Men . Brown Alumni Magazine . 2015-06-20.
  18. Web site: A Multiplicity of Voices: On the Polyphonic Novel . The Millions . 15 February 2013. 2015-06-20.
  19. Web site: Cutting It Close Makes the Trip Worthwhile | 18|8 FINE MEN'S SALONS . Eighteeneight.com . 28 June 2012. 2015-06-20.
  20. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . 'Queen of America,' by Luis Alberto Urrea . SFGate . 2011-12-04 . 2015-06-20.
  21. Web site: Michael David . Lukas. 'The Arrogant Years,' by Lucette Lagnado . SFGate . 2011-09-04 . 2015-06-20.
  22. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Pharaoh's "hardened heart": Passover and the nature of biblical justice . Slate.com . 2011-04-18 . 2015-06-20.
  23. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Lessons From Third Grade: The Cure For Writer's Block . Publishersweekly.com . 2011-02-14 . 2015-06-20.
  24. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . 'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore' review . SFGate . 2011-02-02 . 2015-06-20.
  25. Web site: Jackson . Greg . Workshopping the Next Generation of American War Literature . VQR Online . 2010-04-01 . 2015-06-20.
  26. Web site: Jackson . Greg . Dispatches from the Mother of the World . VQR Online . 2009-09-11 . 2015-06-20.
  27. Web site: Golems, Novelists, and other Superheroes | Tikkun Magazine . Tikkun.org . 2015-06-20.
  28. Web site: Jackson . Greg . Engaging Islam in the Age of Obama . VQR Online . 2009-05-05 . 2015-06-20.
  29. Web site: 'Destiny Disrupted,' by Tamim Ansary . SFGate . 2009-05-10 . 2015-06-20.
  30. Web site: Michael David . Lukas. Scientific explanations for the parting of the Red Sea, the 10 plagues, and the burning bush . Slate.com . 2009-04-08 . 2015-06-20.
  31. Web site: Passover Miracles Meet Scientific Explanations . NPR . 2009-04-11 . 2015-06-20.
  32. Web site: Michael David . Lukas. 'We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land' . SFGate . 2009-02-08 . 2015-06-20.
  33. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Celebrating Hanukkah with menorah parades . Slate.com . 2008-12-19 . 2015-06-20.
  34. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Nonfiction review: Curiel's 'Al' America' . SFGate . 2008-11-08 . 2015-06-20.
  35. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . John Berger's 'From A to X' . SFGate . 2008-09-28 . 2015-06-20.
  36. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Detectives in the desert . SFGate . 2008-06-15 . 2015-06-20.
  37. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Review: Studying Lebanon to unlock Middle East . SFGate . 2008-03-22 . 2015-06-20.
  38. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Eloquent rendering of Petronius' honor suicide . SFGate . 2007-06-17 . 2015-06-20.
  39. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Claudia Roden's new cookbook, Arabesque, an excellent primer on the Middle East . Slate.com . 2006-12-06 . 2015-06-20.
  40. News: Culinary Orientalism. The New York Times. 9 December 2007. Fasman. Jon.
  41. Web site: Tortilla Dreams - Diablo Magazine - August 2006 - East Bay - California . Diablomag.com . 2015-06-20.
  42. Web site: Lukas . Michael . Israel Vibration . Washington City Paper . 2005-08-05 . 2015-06-20.
  43. Web site: Lukas . Michael . Tourist Class . Washington City Paper . 2005-03-04 . 2015-06-20.
  44. Web site: Michael David . Lukas . Features | The commercial campus . Providencephoenix.com . 2015-06-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150922105405/http://providencephoenix.com/features/top/multi/documents/03154626.asp . 2015-09-22 .
  45. Web site: My Summer Job.
  46. Web site: Poetry And Prose From In Posse Review . Webdelsol.com . 2015-06-20.
  47. https://web.archive.org/web/20160316082513/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7746142.html HighBeam
  48. Web site: A Writer's Life . Brown Alumni Magazine . 2015-06-20.
  49. Web site: Past Winners - Fiction. Jewish Book Council. en. 2020-01-20.
  50. Web site: Moore. Ninah. 2019-01-27. Sophie Brody Medal. 2021-01-05. News and Press Center. en.
  51. Web site: Winners. 2021-01-05. Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. en.

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