JAY NEUGEBOREN is the author of 14 books, including two prize winning novels (The Stolen Jew and Before My Life Began), two prize-winning non-fiction books (Imagining Robert and Transforming Madness), and two collections of award-winning stories (Corky’s Brother and Don’t Worry About the Kids).
    His stories and essays have appeared widely (in The Atlantic, Tikkun, GQ, Sport, The American Scholar, Newsweek, et al), and have been reprinted in more than 50 anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards.
     His screenplay for The Hollow Boy, which premiered on American Playhouse, has won many honors, including top prize at the Houston International Film Festival.  He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and is the only author to have won six consecutive Syndicated Fiction Prizes.
     An award winning documentary film based on Imagining Robert has been appearing nationally on PBS stations beginning in 2004.  Open Heart: A Patient’s Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship, appeared in the autumn of 2003, and News from the New American Diaspora, a new collection of short stories appeared in June 2005.

     Mr. Neugeboren was Professor and Writer-in-Residence for many years at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has taught at other universities, including Columbia, Stanford, and Freiburg (Germany).  He now lives and writes in New York City.