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Michaels was born in New York City to Jewish parents; his father was born in Poland. He attended New York University and was awarded a BA degree, and then went on to earn an MA and PhD in English literature from the University of Michigan.
Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 - May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents; his father was born in Poland.
Michaels’ admirers and protégés are legion (David Bezmozgis, an impressive young story writer, is one), and for good reason: neither the most prolific nor the most accessible of the great Jewish-American short story writers, he was, perhaps, the most honest.
- Josh Lambert
“The Men’s Club” Leonard Michaels (born January 2, 1933, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 10, 2003, Berkeley, California) was an American short-story writer, novelist, and essayist known for his compelling urban tales of whimsy and tragedy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
He was vice-president of his synagogue society, keeping records, attending to the maintenance of the synagogue’s building. He spoke Yiddish, Polish, maybe some Russian, and had the Hebrew necessary for prayers. He spoke to me in Yiddish until I began, at about the age of six, speaking to him mainly in English.
Apr 7, 2022 · Guilt had many tributaries. When Michaels was 6, Germany invaded Poland; into the home flooded stories of horror and murder. Once again, it’s easy to connect the violence against Michaels’s family and the violence in Michaels’s stories. “The Holocaust is never absent from his writing,” says Michaels’s widow, Katharine Ogden Michaels ...
Superficially, Michaels conformed to the stereotype of the Jewish-American writer: born in New York in 1933 to immigrant Polish Jews, he grew up on the Lower East Side and spoke only Yiddish...
