About the Author
Robert Wexelblatt is Professor of Humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. An accomplished fiction writer, his essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Poetry Northwest, The Iowa Review, Essays in Literature, Hiram Poetry Review, Sou'wester, and The Massachusetts Review. He has also published two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, and a book of essays, Professors at Play, all with Rutgers University Press.
The New York Times Book Review describes Wexelblatt's stories as "loaded with wit, bristling irony, draped in erudition and studded with metaphysics." Fred Marchant, writing in the Harvard Book Review, hails Life in the Temperate Zone and Other Stories as "[A book] laden with wit, wry observation, gentle sarcasm and wicked ironies." Publishers Weekly says of his work, "Wexelblatt constructs rich stories that make heavy subjects dance weightlessly before the reader's eyes." Jay L. Halio from Studies in Short Fiction notes that Wexelblatt has a "gift for irony in all its arresting forms."
Professor Wexelblatt, who holds a doctorate from Brandeis University, is the recipient of numerous academic and literary awards including the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the Charles Angoff Award for Fiction from The Literary Review, the Kansas Quarterly /Kansas Art Commission First Prize Award for Fiction, and both the San Jose Studies and The Theodore Christian Hoepfner prizes for Best Story and Best Essay.
