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Leslie
Leslie Epstein grew up in Hollywood during its golden age. His father and uncle, Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein, were legendary screenwriters (The Strawberry Blond, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Arsenic and Old Lace, Casablanca, and some fifty others) and wits, who wrote mostly for Jacques Warner. Epstein left Hollywood for Yale and Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and has published eight books of fiction, most notably King of the Jews, which has become a classic of Holocaust literature, Pinto and Sons, Pandaemonium, and Goldkorn Tales. His articles and stories have appeared in such places as Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Harper's, The Yale Review, Triquarterly, Tikkun, Partisan Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. In addition to the Rhodes scholarship, he has received many honors, including a Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards for Distinction in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for his creation of Leib Goldkorn, a residency at the Rockefeller Institute in Bellagio and various grants from the NEA. His book Pandemonium was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. For many years he has been the director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. Having sent his own three children off to college and beyond, he lives with his wife, Ilene, in what has suddenly become a very neat condominium in Brookline, Massachusetts. |
