{"id":39602,"date":"2013-06-24T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=39602"},"modified":"2022-05-20T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T21:02:10","slug":"39602","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/39602\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Epstein\u00a0has published ten works of fiction, among them, <em>P.D. Kimerakov, The Steinway Quintet Plus Four, Regina, Goldkorn Tales, Pinto and Sons, Pandaemonium, Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail, San Remo Drive, and The Eighth Wonder of the World<\/em>. His best known novel, <em>King of the Jews<\/em>, has become a classic of Holocaust Fiction and has been published in eleven foreign languages. In February of 2007, his stage adaptation of<em> King of the Jews<\/em> was produced by the Huntington Theatre Company, and again at the Olney Theatre in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>His latest novel is <em>Liebestod <\/em>(Norton 2012), once again about Leib Goldkorn, who is now one hundred and four.<\/p>\n<p>His articles and stories have appeared in such places as<em> Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper\u2019s, Playboy, the Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Tikkun, Partisan Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post,<\/em> and<em> The Boston Globe.<\/em> His article, \u201cPictures at an Extermination: a Child of Hollywood Discovers Auschwitz and Himself,\u201d appeared in the September 2000 issue of<em> Harper\u2019s<\/em> and can be read online. In addition to the Rhodes Scholarship, he has received many fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim fellowship, an award for Distinction in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a residency at the Rockefeller Institute at Bellagio, and grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0was\u00a0the director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University for over thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71930,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39602\/revisions\/71930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}