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Jonathan Wilson


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Jonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Wilson is the author of seven books: the novels The Hiding Room and A Palestine Affair, a finalist for the 2004 National Jewish Book Award, two collections of short stories Schoom and An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble, two critical works on the fiction of Saul Bellow and most recently a biography, Marc Chagall, runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Professor of English and Director of the Cent
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The Red Balcony

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A Palestine Affair

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Marc Chagall (Jewish Encoun...

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The Hiding Room

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“Yet Ivor felt like the man who, when he is in the city, yearns for the tranquility of the countryside, and when he is in the country misses his urban distractions. He is only truly happy on the train traveling between the two locations.”
Jonathan Wilson, The Red Balcony

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