Molly Antopol

Molly Antopol

Molly Antopol at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born Culver City, California
Occupation Author, lecturer
Nationality American
Genre Fiction, Nonfiction
Notable works The UnAmericans (2014)

Molly Antopol is an American fiction and nonfiction writer.

Personal Life/Education/Career

Antopol was born in Culver City, California and attended Culver City Middle School, Culver City High School and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received an MFA from Columbia University.

She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.[1]

Her debut story collection The UnAmericans was published in February 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company. It will be published in seven countries.

Antopol won the 2015 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.[2]

In 2014, Antopol was nominated for the National Book Award for The UnAmericans. [3]

In 2013, Antopol was a recipient of the "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation.[4] The book was also a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

In the New York Times, critic Dwight Garner favorably compared Antopol's work to that of Grace Paley and Allegra Goodman, finding the writing "Fresh and offbeat… memorable and promising.”[5] In reviewing The UnAmericans for NPR, author Meg Wolitzer commented that the stories "make you nostalgic, not just for earlier times, but for another era in short fiction. A time when writers such as Bernard Malamud, and Isaac Bashevis Singer and Grace Paley roamed the earth.”[6] In a review in Esquire, critic Benjamin Percy wrote that the book "is poised to be this year’s sensation. The layered riches and historical sweep of its stories make them feel grand, like novels writ small ... This collection matters so much."

She lives in San Francisco.

References

  1. ↑ "Molly Antopol « Stanford Creative Writing Program". Creativewriting.stanford.edu. 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  2. ↑ http://blog.sfgate.com/bookmarks/2015/04/28/molly-antopol-wins-new-york-public-library-young-lions-fiction-award//
  3. ↑ "Fiction Long List Announced for National Book Awards". The New York Times. September 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Molly Antopol, 5 Under 35, 2013,". The National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  5. ↑ "Tales From Tel Aviv and Upper West Side". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  6. ↑ Antopol, Molly (2014-02-12). "Book Review: 'The UnAmericans,' By Molly Antopol". NPR. Retrieved 2014-04-07.

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