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Nathan Englander
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “jewish-american author born in long island”. Today it says “american short story writer and novelist”.
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Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970.1 He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges , published by Alfred A.2 The volume won widespread critical acclaim, earning Englander the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kauffman Prize, and established him as an important writer of fiction.3
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jewish-american author born in long island
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american short story writer and novelist
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