Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman (born 1979) is an American writer.

Early life

Fishman was born in Minsk, formerly the former capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia, and presently the capital of Belarus to a family of Jewish-Soviet origin.[1] Fishman immigrated to the U.S. in 1988 with his family.[2] He holds a BA in Russian literature from Princeton University and has written works of non-fiction and literary criticism.

Career

Fishman is the author of the novel A Replacement Life, a 2014 New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal.[3] This novel tell the story of a young Jewish-Soviet immigrant assists his grandfather in defrauding the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany until they are caught. Fishman’s second novel, Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo (2016), tells the story of a New Jersey couple who adopt a difficult baby from Montana.[4][5]

Fishman lives in New York City. He is a lecturer in creative writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. at Princeton University.[6][7]

References
  1. "Boris Fishman". Harper Collins Publishers. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  2. "Boris Fishman". Foyles. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  3. "Boris Fishman". Pushkin Press. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  4. Moody, Elyse. "Lost in Translation: PW Talks with Boris Fishman". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  5. "Boris Fishman: Believable lies". Bookanista. 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  6. "Author Talk: Boris Fishman: "Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table"". Princeton Library. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  7. "Boris Fishman". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-09-08.


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