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Born: 1932, Brooklyn, NY
Nationality: American
Genre(s): Novels, Short Stories, Literary criticism and history

Personal

Born July 14, 1932, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; son of Louis (a dentist) and Ceceile (Frey) Sukenick; married Lynn Luria, March 19, 1961 (divorced, 1984). Married Julia Frey, P.h.D, 1987.

Education

Cornell University, B.A., 1955;
Brandeis University, M.A., 1957, Ph.D., 1962.

Career

--Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., Instructor, 1956-58, 1959-61.
--Instructor, Hofstra University, 1961-62.
--Toured Europe, wrote, and taught in various schools, 1962-66.
--City College of the City University of New York, Assistant Professor of English, 1966-67.
--Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y., Assistant Professor of English and writing, 1968- 69.
--Writer in residence, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1969, and University of California, Irvine,1970-72.
--University of Colorado, Boulder, professor of English, 1975--, Director of Creative Writing, 1975-77.
--University of Colorado, Boulder, Director of Publications Center, 1986-96,
--founder of exchange program and first exchange Professor to l'Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, 1979.
--Lecturer, Brandeis University, 1956-60, Hofstra University, 1961-62.
--Butler Chair, State University of New York, Buffalo, spring, 1981.

--Founding member, Fiction Collective, New York City, 1974.
--Publisher, American Book Review, 1977, and Black Ice, 1989 to present.
--Member of PMLA advisory committee, 1987-90.
--National Book Critics Circle, 1992-95.

Memberships

--PEN, Authors Guild
--Authors League of America
--National Book Critics Circle
--Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (chairman of board of directors, 1975-77)
--Fiction Collective (founding member).