Cultural Writing. Biography and Memoir. Joanne Jacobson is a child of the Midwest and of suburbia. She grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Evanston, Illinois, on the lakeshore north of Chicago, the child of children of Jewish immigrants. Her parents bought their first house there, their first garden and front lawn; she rode her first bicycle and learned to drive a car there. Her work as a writer and a teacher is rooted in that America of hope and change, and in the urge to remember. She has taught American studies, American literature, and creative writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Angers, France, Middlebury College and Yeshiva University, where she is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. "Magically, brilliantly, movingly, the particularity of Joanne Jacobson's language captures the universal truths of childhood. I devoured HUNGER ARTIST. It is a fresh and riveting memoir of the highest order"--Patricia Volk.

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