Rose Moss

Rose Rappoport Moss is an American writer born in South Africa. She has published novels, short stories, words for music and nonfiction.

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Moss was born in Johannesburg, and has lived in the United States since 1964.

In Court, a collection of her short stories, appeared as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2007. She has published two novels, The Family Reunion (1974), short-listed for a National Book Award, and The Terrorist (1979, published as The Schoolmaster in South Africa in 1981). A non-fiction book, Shouting at the Crocodile (1990) presents two defendants, Popo Molefe and Mosiuoa Lekota, in the Delmas Treason Trial during the last days of apartheid. In 2008, Lekota became a prime mover of a new political party in South Africa, the Congress of the People, COPE.

Among her more than forty short stories one won a Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Several have been cited in Best American Short Stories, been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, selected for anthologies and translated.

Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and other similar publications and in scholarly journals. She is a contributing associate for the Harvard Review.

She teaches at Harvard Law School and the Real Colegio Complutense and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She is a member of PEN American Center and has served on the Freedom to Write Committee of PEN New England and as a judge for the PEN Winship Award for fiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and blogs on the Nieman Watchdog site.