Emil Draitser
Bewildering Stories biography
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Besides twelve books of artistic and scholarly prose, including:
- Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative
- In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir
- Farewell, Mama Odessa: A Novel
- Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir
- Forbidden Laughter: Soviet Underground Jokes.
my work has appeared in such journals as Partisan Review, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, World Literature Today, Prism International, and elsewhere. Several of my short pieces have been published on the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and other papers.
I am a three-time recipient of the New Jersey Council of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and several City University of New York grants for Creative Writing. Currently, I teach Russian at Hunter College in NYC. For more info, go to www.emildraitser.com.
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