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Alan Lelchuk is a novelist, professor, and editor from Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. in World Literature from Brooklyn College in 1960, studied at University College in 1962-63, and received his M.A. in 1963 and Ph.D. in 1965, both in English and from Stanford University. His novels are American Mischief, Miriam at Thirty-Four, Shrinking: The Beginning of My Own Ending, Miriam in Her Forties, Brooklyn Boy, Playing the Game, and Ziff: A Life? He co-edited 8 Great Hebrew Short Novels and has written, for young adults, On Home Ground. His work has been translated into more than half a dozen foreign languages, including Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
His short fiction has appeared in such publications as Transatlantic Review, The Atlantic, Modern Occasions, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Partisan Review. Significant critical studies on Lelchuk have been Philip Roth in Esquire, Wilfrid Sheed in Book-of-the-Month Club News, Bejmain DeMott in The Atlantic, Mordechai Richler in the Chicago Tribune, Robert Towers in The New York Times, and Steven Birkets in The New Republic.
He began teaching at Brandeis University in 1966, was Visiting Writer for two years at Amherst College, from 1982–1984, and has been a member of the Dartmouth College faculty since 1985.
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