Jay Cantor

Jay Cantor
Jay Cantor
Born	1948 (age 76–77); New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist; essayist;
Education	Harvard University (BA); University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD)
Spouse	Melinda Marble
Children	1
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Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist.

He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. He teaches at Tufts University.^[1] He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Melinda Marble, and their daughter, Grace.^[2]

His work appeared in The Harvard Crimson.^[3] He was on the 2009 ArtScience Competition jury.^[4]

Awards

The Death of Che Guevara, Knopf, 1983, ISBN 978-0-394-51767-4
Krazy Kat: a novel in five panels, Knopf, 1988, ISBN 978-0-394-55025-1
Great Neck: a novel, Knopf, 2003, ISBN 978-0-375-41394-0^[5]
Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka, Knopf, 2014, ISBN 978-0385350341

The Space Between: Literature and Politics, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-8018-2672-6
On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother. Knopf, 1991, ISBN 978-0-394-58752-3

"Jay Cantor talks about food", Cantabrigia
"An Interview with Jay Cantor", Ken Capobianco and Jay Cantor, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 3–11
"Jay Cantor. Great Neck. (Book Review)", The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22, 2003, James Crossley

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Jay Cantor
Born	1948 (age 76–77) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist essayist
Education	Harvard University (BA) University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD)
Spouse	Melinda Marble
Children	1