Molly Antopol

Molly Antopol is an American fiction and nonfiction writer. As of 2016, she is the Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.[1] Her primary research interests include the Cold War and the Middle East.

Molly Antopol
Molly Antopol at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Molly Antopol at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born26 February 1978
Culver City, California
OccupationAuthor, lecturer
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction, Nonfiction
Notable worksThe UnAmericans (2014)

She is married to author Chanan Tigay and lives in San Francisco.[2]


Life and career

Antopol was born in Culver City, California.

Her debut story collection "The UnAmericans" was published in February, 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company. In 2014, The UnAmericans was nominated for the National Book Award.[3]

Antopol won the 2015 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for The UnAmericans.[4] She also won a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation,[5] the French-American Prize, the California Book Award Silver Medal, and the Ribalow Prize. The book was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the California Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award.

In the New York Times, critic Dwight Garner favorably compared Antopol's work to that of Grace Paley and Allegra Goodman, finding the writing "Fresh and offbeat… memorable and promising.”[6] In reviewing The UnAmericans for NPR, author Meg Wolitzer commented that the stories "make you nostalgic, not just for earlier times, but for another era in short fiction. A time when writers such as Bernard Malamud, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Grace Paley roamed the earth.”[7]

She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.

She is the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute fellowship, at Harvard University (2017), the Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin (2017), and a fellowship from the American Library in Paris (2019).

Awards and honors
  • 2019 Visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris
  • 2017 Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin
  • 2016 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University
  • 2015 Ribalow Prize for The UnAmericans[8]
  • 2015 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for The Un-Americans[4]
  • 2014 National Book Award nominee for The Un-Americans[9]
  • 2014 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award for The Un-Americans[10]
  • 2014 California Book Awards Silver Medal First Fiction winner for The Un-Americans[11]
  • 2014 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for The Un-Americans
  • 2014 Barnes and Noble Discover Award (2nd Place) for The Un-Americans[12]
  • 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Fiction Finalist for The Un-Americans
  • 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Finalist for The Un-Americans[13]
  • 2014 Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction Finalist for The Un-Americans[14]

References
  1. "Molly Antopol". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  2. Ghert-Z, Renee. "Debut collection launches new author to literary stratosphere". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  3. "Fiction Long List Announced for National Book Awards". The New York Times. September 17, 2014.
  4. "Molly Antopol wins New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award". 28 April 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  5. "Molly Antopol, 5 Under 35, 2013". The National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  6. Garner, Dwight (18 March 2014). "Tales From Tel Aviv and Upper West Side". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  7. Antopol, Molly (2014-02-12). "Book Review: 'The UnAmericans,' By Molly Antopol". NPR. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  8. "Molly Antopol Wins Hadassah Fiction Award". The Forward. JTA. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  9. Alter, Alexandra (17 September 2014). "Fiction Long List Announced for National Book Awards". Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  10. "The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol, 2014 National Book Award Longlist, Fiction". Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  11. "California Book Awards | Commonwealth Club". www.commonwealthclub.org. Retrieved Mar 14, 2019.
  12. Noble, Barnes &. "2015 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Books". Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  13. "2015 Sami Rohr Prize Finalists Announced". Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  14. "The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies". Mar 8, 2014. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Retrieved Mar 14, 2019.


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