Nathan Englander

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Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author who in Long Island, NY and graduated from Binghamton University. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published by Knopf in 2000. He received an advance of $350,000 for the collection, an unusually large amount. While his short story collection earned him some scorn from the Jewish community, the collection won rave reviews and Newsweek dubbed him "fiction's hot talent".^{[citation needed]}

Two of his short stories have appeared in editions of "The Best American Short Stories"; "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" appeared in the 2000 edition, with guest editor E.L. Doctorow, and "How We Avenged the Blums" appeared in the 2006, guest edited by Ann Patchett. The series editor is Katrina Kenison (1990 - present); the publisher is Houghton Mifflin.

"The Ministry of Special Cases," the long-awaited follow-up to his debut, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges", will be released April 24, 2007. "The Ministry of Special Cases" is set in 1976 in Buenos Aires during Argentina's "dirty war."