Occupation Author, lecturer Name Molly Antopol Nationality American Role Fiction writer | Genre Fiction, Nonfiction Books The UnAmericans: Stories | |
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Notable works The UnAmericans (2014) | ||
Molly antopol on the unamericans at miami book fair
Molly Antopol is an American fiction and nonfiction writer. In 2013 the National Book Foundation named her a 5 under 35 honoree. In 2014 she was longlisted for the National Book Award.
Contents
- Molly antopol on the unamericans at miami book fair
- Molly antopol presents her book the unamericans part 3
- Life and career
- Awards and honors
- References
Molly antopol presents her book the unamericans part 3
Life and career
Antopol was born in Culver City, California and attended Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, Culver City Middle School, Culver City High School and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
She is a 2016 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She will be a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2017.
Her debut story collection The UnAmericans was published in February 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company. It will be published in seven countries.
Antopol won the 2015 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for The UnAmericans.
It also won the French-American Foundation's Translation Prize.
In 2014, Antopol was nominated for the National Book Award.
In 2013, Antopol was a recipient of the "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation. The book was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the California Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award.
In the New York Times, critic Dwight Garner favorably compared Antopol's work to that of Grace Paley and Allegra Goodman, finding the writing "Fresh and offbeat… memorable and promising.” In reviewing The UnAmericans for NPR, author Meg Wolitzer commented that the stories "make you nostalgic, not just for earlier times, but for another era in short fiction. A time when writers such as Bernard Malamud, and Isaac Bashevis Singer and Grace Paley roamed the earth.” In a review in Esquire, critic Benjamin Percy wrote that the book "is poised to be this year’s sensation. The layered riches and historical sweep of its stories make them feel grand, like novels writ small ... This collection matters so much."