Jay Cantor

Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist.

Jay Cantor
Born	1948 (age 75–76) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist essayist
Education	Harvard University (BA) University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD)
Spouse	Melinda Marble
Children	1

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

His work appeared in The Harvard Crimson. He was on the 2009 ArtScience Competition jury.

Awards

• 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

Novels

• 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
• Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka, Knopf, 2014, ISBN 978-0385350341

Essays

• 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

External links

• "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