Ehud Havazelet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ehud Havazelet

An author and professor

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1955

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel

Date of Death: 05-Nov-2015

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ehud Havazelet (July 13, 1955 – November 5, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer. Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel.
His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and emeritus professor at Yeshiva University, emigrated to the United States in 1957.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1977, and received an M.F.A at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1984.
He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University from 1984 to 1989.
He taught creative writing at Oregon State University from 1989 to 1999.
He began teaching at the University of Oregon in 1999 and held the position of Professor of Creative Writing at the time of his death in 2015.