Harold Jaffe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Harold Jaffe

American writer

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1944

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Harold Jaffe

  • Harold Jaffe (born July 8, 1942) is an American writer of novels, short fiction, drama and essays.
  • He is the author of 28 books, including 14 collections of fiction, four novels and two volumes of essays.
  • He is also the editor of the literary-cultural journal Fiction International.
  • He has won two NEA grants in fiction and two Fulbright fellowships.
  • His works have been translated into 15 languages, including German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian.
  • Jaffe is also a Professor of Creative Writing, English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. Jaffe's fiction has appeared in such journals as Mississippi Review; City Lights Review; Paris Review; New Directions in Prose and Poetry; Chicago Review; Chelsea; Fiction;Central Park; Witness; Black Ice; Minnesota Review;Boundary 2; ACM; Black Warrior Review; Cream City Review; Two Girls’Review; and New Novel Review.
  • His fictions have also been anthologized in Pushcart Prize; Best American Stories; Best of American Humor; Storming the Reality Studio; American Made; Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation; After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology; Bateria and Am Lit (Germany);Borderlands (Mexico); Praz (Italy); Positive (Japan); and elsewhere. The 2004 issue of The Journal of Experimental Fiction called “The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe” was devoted to his writings. Jaffe is well known for his technique of docufiction, a literary form which treats and fictionalizes news reports and other published data to expose their philosophical underpinnings, ambiguities, nuances, and hidden agendas.
  • In addition to Docufiction, both Guerilla Writing and Unsituated Dialogue were literary terms created by Jaffe.

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