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Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 – May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents; his father was born in Poland. He went to college and earned his BA from New York University and went on to acquire an MA as well as a PhD in English Literature from the University of Michigan, before spending most of his adult life in Berkeley, California. ''Going Places'', his first book of short stories, made his reputation as one of the most brilliant of that era's fiction writers; the stories are urbane, funny, and written in a private, hectic diction that gives them a remarkable edge. The follow-up, coming six years later, was ''I Would Have Saved Them If I Could'', a collection considered by some as strong as the first.〔 ''The Men's Club'', Michaels' first novel, is a story-like, relatively short comedic work that simultaneously attacks and celebrates the absurdities of men as they gather in a kind of urban support group. In 1986, the novel was made into a film, directed by Peter Medak, with the screenplay by Michaels, and starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Frank Langella. ''Sylvia'' is a fictionalized memoir of Michael's first wife, Sylvia Bloch, who committed suicide. Michaels was a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interred at Oakmont Memorial Park, in Lafayette, California. Michaels had a daughter with his third wife, the poet Brenda Hillman. His son Jesse Michaels (from his second marriage) was the vocalist and primary lyricist in the seminal underground punk rock band Operation Ivy. ==Selected publications== * ''Going Places'' (, ISBN 0-374-16496-7) * ''I Would Have Saved Them If I Could'' (, ISBN 0-374-17411-3) * ''The Men's Club'' (, ISBN 0-374-20782-8) (filmed in 1986) * ''Shuffle'' (, ISBN 0-374-26349-3) * ''Sylvia'' (, ISBN 1-56279-029-3) * ''A Cat'' (, ISBN 1-57322-013-2) * ''Time Out of Mind'' (, ISBN 1-57322-819-2) * ''A Girl With a Monkey: New and Selected Stories'' (, ISBN 1-56279-120-6) * ''To Feel These Things'' (, ISBN 1-56279-040-4) * ''The Collected Stories '' (, ISBN 0-374-12654-2) * ''The Essays of Leonard Michaels '' , ISBN 978-0-374-14880-5 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leonard Michaels」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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