Boris Fishman
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Boris Fishman (born 1979) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo (2016) and A Replacement Life (2014), and Savage Feast (2019).
Early life
Fishman was born in Minsk, formerly the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and presently the capital of Belarus to a family of Jewish-Soviet origin.{{cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/boris-fishman| title=Boris Fishman|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|accessdate=2020-09-08}} Fishman immigrated to the U.S. in 1988 with his family.{{cite web|url=https://www.foyles.co.uk/Author-Boris-Fishman| title=Boris Fishman|publisher=Foyles|accessdate=2020-09-08}} He holds a BA in Russian literature from Princeton University and has written works of non-fiction and literary criticism.
Career
Fishman is the author of the novel A Replacement Life, a 2014 New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal.{{cite web|url=https://www.pushkinpress.com/author/boris-fishman/| title=Boris Fishman|publisher=Pushkin Press|accessdate=2020-09-08}} The novel tells the story of a young Jewish-Soviet immigrant who assists his grandfather in defrauding the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany until they are caught. Fishman's second novel, Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo (2016), tells the story of a New Jersey couple who adopt a difficult baby from Montana.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/61068-lost-in-translation-pw-talks-with-boris-fishman.html|title=Lost in Translation: PW Talks with Boris Fishman|last=Moody|first=Elyse|website=Publishers Weekly|access-date=2019-03-18}}{{Cite web|url=http://bookanista.com/boris-fishman/|title=Boris Fishman: Believable lies|date=2014-11-05|website=Bookanista|access-date=2019-03-18}} His third book, Savage Feast, has been described as "part memoir, part cookbook" as it mixes stories and recipes together from Fishman's childhood.
Having taught in Princeton University's Creative Writing Program from 2015 to 2020, followed University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, where he taught the MFA program.{{cite web|url=https://borisfishman.com/bio/| title=Boris Fishman, Bio|publisher=Boris Fishman's Official Site|accessdate=2021-11-16}} In 2024 he began teaching the inaugural class at University of Austin in Austin, Texas, where he lives with his wife and daughter.Fishman, Boris (22 March 2025). [https://www.thefp.com/p/liberal-conservative-university-uatx-boris-fishman I’m a Liberal at a ‘Conservative’ University. How Did I End Up Here?] The Free Press. Retrieved on 23 March 2025
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External links
- {{Official website|https://borisfishman.com/}}
- [https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-107596/boris-fishman/ HarperCollins author page]
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