Host a Jewish Book Author

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Welcome to Host-a-Jewish-Book-Author.com, an independent site created by literary agent Anna Olswanger, where you can contact Jewish book authors by name, location, or genre. Host-a-Jewish-Book-Author.com lists only authors who have agreed to participate, with authors themselves providing their contact information, book titles, lecture topics, and areas of travel.

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Author Partners

Janice Eidus (The War of the Rosens), a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and writing coach, lives in Brooklyn, New York, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She has twice won the O.Henry Prize for her short stories, a Pushcart Prize and a Redbook Prize. Eidus gives talks throughout the U.S., Europe, and Central America on "Reading and Writing Jewish: Literary Heritage from a Writer's Perspective," "The Multiracial Jewish Family: Transformation and Creativity," and "Growing Up As a Secular Jew and Writing About It." In her talks, she includes readings from her fiction and nonfiction about Jewish identity. To arrange a program, email Eidus at janice@janiceeidus.com or visit her website www.janiceeidus.com.

Steven J. Harper (Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold) is an atttorney and adjunct professor of trial advocacy at Northwestern University's School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. In his talks, he shares the story of Richard Leopold, a secular Jew who overcame widespread anti-Semitism to become one of the country's most respect historians; as a professor at Harvard and Northwestern, Leopold shaped students who would later become famous, such as Senator George McGovern and journalist Georgie Anne Geyer. Harper is willing to travel anywhere. To arrange a program, email him at steve@stevenjharper.com or visit his website www.stevenjharper.com.

Tami Lehman-Wilzig (Keeping the Promise: A Torah's Journey, Mayer Aaron Levi and His Lemon Tree, Passover Around the World, and Tasty Bible Stories: A Menu of Tales & Matching Recipes) lives in Petach Tikva, Israel, where she is an English advertising copywriter. Winner of the International Reading Association Teacher's Choice Award and the New York State Reading Association's Charlotte Award, Lehman-Wilzig gives interactive presentations of her books for ages 6-10. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, from September, 2008, through May, 2009, she is willing to travel along the East Coast, from Maine to Florida, and to other parts of the U.S. if she can combine appearances. To arrange a program, email Lehman-Wilzig at tami@tlwkidsbooks.com or visit her website www.tlwkidsbooks.com.

Gregory Levey (Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government—A Memoir) lives in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches communications at Ryerson University. In his talks about his book, he gives a humorous walk-through of his experience as a twenty-five-year-old North American thrown into the job of speechwriting for the Israeli government, first at the UN, and then in the Prime Minister's office. As a freelance journalist, Levey travels frequently to New York, but is willing to travel anywhere, provided his expenses are covered. To arrange a program, contact the Jewish Book Council at jbc@jewishbooks.org or Levey directly at gregory@gregorylevey.com or through his website www.gregorylevey.com.

William F.S. Miles (Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel's Reform Kibbutzim) lives near Providence, Rhode Island, where he is an adjunct professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston. A finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Miles gives these talks: "Rhythm and Jews," "Bull-Buying, Goat-Giving, and the Rabbi's Well in Africa: Not Your Usual Tzedaka Projects," "A Jewish Jaunt in China," and "Whatever Happened to Jewish Utopia?" Miles is wllling to travel anywhere. To arrange a program, email him at b.miles@neu.edu or visit his faculty pages on the Brown University and Northeastern University web sites.

Leora Skolkin-Smith (Edges: O Israel, O Jerusalem) is a full-time writer in New York City. Nominated by Grace Paley for a PEN Ernest Hemingway Award, Skolkin-Smith gives talks on "Gender Issues and Mother/Daughter Relationships in Jewish Fiction," "Writing About War in Fiction," "Israel and Palestine in Fiction," and "From Novel to Feature Film" (the last about her novel's acquisition by Triboro Pictures). Skolkin-Smith is willing to travel anywhere. To arrange a program, email her at skolkin@nyc.rr.com or visit her website www.leoraskolkinsmith.com.

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