Jay Cantor
Encyclopedia
Jay Cantor, B.A., Ph.D. is an American novelist, and essayist.
He graduated from Harvard University
with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz
with a Ph.D.
He teaches at Tufts University
.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace.
His work appeared in The Harvard Crimson.
He was on the The 2009 ArtScience Competition jury.
He graduated from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
with a Ph.D.
He teaches at Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace.
His work appeared in The Harvard Crimson.
He was on the The 2009 ArtScience Competition jury.
Novels
- Great Neck: a novel, Knopf, 2003, ISBN 9780375413940
- The Death of Che Guevara, Knopf, 1983, ISBN 9780394517674
- Krazy Kat: a novel in five panels, Knopf, 1988, ISBN 9780394550251
Essays
- The Space Between: Literature and Politics, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, ISBN 9780801826726
- On Giving Birth to One’s Own Mother. Knopf, 1991, ISBN 9780394587523
Reviews
To call Jay Cantor the thinking man's Tom WolfeTom WolfeThomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...
is a little unfair to Tom Wolfe, who surely believes, and with some justification, that he's the thinking man's Tom Wolfe. It's also a little unfair to Jay Cantor, who for all I know abhors Wolfe's politics and his fiction as well. Yet the scope of Cantor's ambition in his teeming new novel, Great Neck; his avid desire to capture the American scene entire; his crowd of characters, each absorbed in a private drama; certain thrillingly compact episodes that stand out like a prodigy among dull schoolkids; the hankering after abandoned tradition (Cantor is fascinated by the cabala, Wolfe by the Stoics); the stern morality operating just below the surface of the narrative -- all these things, it seems to me, link these two writers, both of whom ardently believe in the power of fiction to bring an American moment to life.
External links
- "Jay Cantor talks about food", Cantabrigia
- "An Interview with Jay Cantor", Ken Capobianco and Jay Cantor, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 3–11
- "Jay Cantor. Great Neck. (Book Review)", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22, 2003, James Crossley