Daniel Asa Rose (born November 20, 1949) is an American author, journalist, critic, and editor. His writing is known for its themes of family, memory, and Jewish identity.
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Early life and education
editBorn in Brooklyn, New York to Anne (née Kaufman) and Gilbert Rose, Rose grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut.
He graduated from Brown University in 1971 with a degree in English.[1]
Career
editRose's first published short story, "Small Family with Rooster," ran in The New Yorker in 1977.[2]
His short story "The Goodbye Present" received an O. Henry Award in 1980.[3]
In 1987, he published his first novel, Flipping For It.[4] A black comedy about divorce, it was named a New York Times New and Noteworthy Paperback.
Rose published his short story collection Small Family With Rooster in 1988.[5] He received PEN Fiction Awards for two stories in the collection.
In 2000, Rose published Hiding Places: A Father and his Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape From the Holocaust, a memoir that intermingles a taut current-day search for the hiding places that saved his family in World War II with memories of his own hiding places growing up in suburban 1950s Connecticut.[6] It earned starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, as well as the New England Booksellers Discovery Award and inclusion in the collection Best Jewish Writing 2003.[7][8]
In 2006, he received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowments for the Arts, alongside Jhumpa Lahiri.[9]
In 2010, Rose published Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life.[10] A comic memoir about medical tourism, it was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year.[11]
In May 2014, The Wrap reported that Richard Linklater was adapting Larry's Kidney into a feature film starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, though Linklater later told IndieWire that the project was no longer moving ahead due to a lack of funding.[12][13]
In 2023, Rose's memoir Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert was published by High Road Books, an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press.[14] The Albuquerque Journal ranked it as one of the best memoirs of the year.[15]
Rose has also served as arts & culture editor of The Forward, editor of Barbara Probst Solomon's literary magazine The Reading Room, and writer-in-residence at Western Connecticut State University's Creative and Professional Writing MFA program.[16]
Works
editNovels
edit- Flipping For It (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Short story collections
edit- Small Family with Rooster (St. Martin's Press, 1988)
Memoirs
edit- Hiding Places: A Father and his Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape From the Holocaust (Simon and Schuster, 2000)
- Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life (Harper, 2010)
- Truth or Consequences: Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert (High Road Books, 2023)
Personal
editRose lives in Connecticut. He has four sons, including actor Jeremy Roth-Rose.[17]
References
edit- ^ "Theses & Dissertaions". Brown University Library. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
- ^ "Small Family With Rooster". The New Yorker. 1977-12-19. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ Prize stories 1980: the O. Henry awards. Doubleday & Co. 1980.
- ^ Rose, Daniel Asa (1987). Flipping for it (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-00124-X. OCLC 14587518.
- ^ Rose, Daniel Asa (1988). Small family with rooster: stories. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-01826-6. OCLC 17413617.
- ^ Rose, Daniel Asa (2000). Hiding places: a father and his sons retrace their family's escape from the Holocaust. Mazal Holocaust Collection. New York. ISBN 0-684-85478-3. OCLC 43324260.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust by Daniel Asa Rose". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ Hiding Places | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "Daniel Asa Rose". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ Rose, Daniel Asa (2009). Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in China with my black sheep cousin and his mail-order bride, skirting the law to get him a transplant-- and save his life (1st ed.). New York: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-170870-1. OCLC 262884335.
- ^ "Book awards: Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year | LibraryThing". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
- ^ "Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis to Star in 'Larry's Kidney' for Richard Linklater". 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ Kohn, Eric (2014-07-09). "'Boyhood' Director Richard Linklater Explains Why It's Harder Than Ever to Make Movies Today (Part 2)". IndieWire. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ Rose, Daniel Asa (2023). Truth or Consequences: improbable adventures, a near-death experience, and unexpected redemption in the New Mexico desert. Albuquerque. ISBN 978-0-8263-6479-1. OCLC 1340037934.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "'Truth or Consequences' ranks as one of the best memoirs of the year - Albuquerque Journal". www.abqjournal.com. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
- ^ "Faculty – MFA Creative & Professional Writing". www.wcsu.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ "Jeremy Roth-Rose". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-04-26.