John J. Clayton
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Biography12 Lawton Rd, Leverett, MA 01054 Tel: (413) 548-9645 jclayton@english.umass.edu www.johnjclayton.com JOHN J. CLAYTON 12 Lawton Rd, Leverett, MA 01054 Tel: (413) 548-9645 jclayton@english.umass.edu www.johnjclayton.com JOHN J. CLAYTON’S fourth novel, The Mitzvah Man, will be published in the spring of 2011. His third novel, Kuperman’s Fire, about criminal evil, Jewish heritage, and the miracle of survival, was published in 2007. His Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories, was also published in 2007. In 2010, his stories have been published in Commentary, Kerem, Notre Dame Review, and The Journal. A story in Missouri Review was included in a recent Pushcart Prize Anthology. Recently, he has also appeared in AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Sewanee Review, and many times in Commentary. Clayton has a B.A. from Columbia College, an M.A. from N.Y.U. and a PhD from Indiana University. He has taught modern literature and fiction writing as professor and then Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1969 and has taught as Visiting Professor at Mt. Holyoke College. He is now teaching at Hampshire College. His stories have won prizes in O.Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. His collection Radiance, won the Ohio State University award in short fiction and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. An essay about his work appeared in the Fall, 1998 Yale Review. “The Man Who Could See Radiance” was read at Symphony Space in New York and has been aired often on NPR since fall, 2001, as part of the Selected Shorts series. It is part of the audio anthology, Getting There From Here: Best of Selected Shorts. Clayton has edited six editions of an anthology, the Heath Introduction to Fiction. He has also written a good deal about modern fiction, including Gestures of Healing, a psychological study of modern British and American fiction. His Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man won awards (Choice, MLA) in literary criticism. He has published criticism on various twentieth century writers including D. H. Lawrence, E. L. Doctorow, and Grace Paley. His feature articles have appeared in both Jewish and mainstream newspapers. |
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