Occupation professor, novelist Role Professor and novelist Name Lee Siegel | Genre fiction, campus novel Nationality United States | |
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Born July 22, 1945 (age 78)
Los Angeles, California ( 1945-07-22 ) Children Sebastian Siegel, Dmitri Siegel Siblings James Whit, Jr., Robert Siegel Education University of Oxford (1975), Columbia University (1969), University of California, Berkeley (1967) Books Net of magic, Love in a Dead Language, Trance‑Migrations: Stories of India - Tal, Laughing Matters: Comic Tr, Love and the Incredibly Similar People Noreen Nash, Sebastian Siegel, James Whit, James Whit - Jr | ||
Parents Noreen Nash, Lee E Siegel | ||
Lee A. Siegel (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is a novelist and professor of religion at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His 1999 novel, Love in a Dead Language, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a bestseller in India.
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Life and career
Siegel studied comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley and fine arts at Columbia University. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford for a dissertation in the field of Sanskrit. He then was hired by the University of Hawaii as Professor of Religious Studies, where he has taught ever since.
In 1988 Siegel was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. He has received numerous fellowships and grants including five Senior Research Fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Smithsonian Institution (1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1996), four research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (1982, 1985, 1987, 1990) and one from the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. In addition Professor Siegel has been two Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching (1986 and 1996). He has been a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation, and twice at the Bellagio Study Center (1990 and 2003). He also was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College of Oxford University (1997).
His two sons are Dmitri and film actor Sebastian Sebastian Siegel.
Scholarly works
From 1978 until the late 1990s, Siegel published scholarly studies of Indian love poetry, comedy, horror, and magic. These books include:
Novels and other fictions
In 1999, Siegel published his first novel, Love in a Dead Language. It was named the New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
His fictional works are: