Robert Anthony Siegel
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Robert Anthony Siegel is an American novelist and professor. He is the author of two novels – All the Money in the World and All Will Be Revealed – and also professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington.
, where he majored in East Asian studies
and spent his junior year in Tokyo
. He returned to Japan following graduation and studied on a Mombusho Fellowship. In the early 1990s, he studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he received his MFA. The year after that, he was in Provincetown, Massachusetts
on a writing fellowship.
Education
A native New Yorker, Siegel was born, raised, and educated on Manhattan. While in high school, he began the study of both Japanese and judo, becoming fluent in the former and a champion in the later. For his undergraduate education, he attended Harvard UniversityHarvard 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...
, where he majored in East Asian studies
East Asian studies
East Asian Studies is a distinct multidisciplinary field of scholarly enquiry and education that promotes a broad humanistic understanding of East Asia past and present...
and spent his junior year in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
. He returned to Japan following graduation and studied on a Mombusho Fellowship. In the early 1990s, he studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he received his MFA. The year after that, he was in Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,431 at the 2000 census, with an estimated 2007 population of 3,174...
on a writing fellowship.
Writing career
In 1997, his first novel All the Money in the World was published. This was followed in 2007 by his second, All Will Be Revealed.Novels
- All Will Be Revealed, Macadam Cage Pub, 2008, ISBN 978-1596922853
- All the Money in the World, Random House, 1997, ISBN 978-0517316887
Awards and Fellowships
- 1992-93 Writing Fellowship, Fine Arts Workcenter at Provincetown
- 1992 Michener-Engle Fellowship, University of Iowa
- 1983-85 Mombusho Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Tokyo, Japan