Daniel Fuchs was born in New York City. He attended public schools and received his B.A. in 1930 from the City College of New York and taught elementary school in Brooklyn for the next seven years. In...
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Daniel Fuchs was born in New York City and grew up in the poor section of Brooklyn that became the setting for his early novels. His parents were Jacob Fuchs, a newsstand owner, and Sara (Cohen) Fuchs...
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Daniel Fuchs is a writer of major importance in the American-Jewish literary tradition, although his novels are neither as generally recognized nor as widely read as befits his achievement. His follow...
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Critical Essay by Irving Howe
In the writing of fiction, talent came almost as easily to Daniel Fuchs as to Willie Mays in the hitting of baseballs. There is a kind of performer whom we call "...
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Critical Essay by John Thompson
[How] strangely the words and the phrases [of West of the Rockies] seem to lie on the page—to me a puzzle more perplexing than Burgess's wild language. I...
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Critical Essay by Mordecai Richler
["The Apathetic Bookie Joint" is] a collection of those stories the author wishes most to preserve, and a hitherto-unpublished Hollywood novella, ...
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Critical Essay by Irving Howe
What strikes one first of all about Daniel Fuchs's novels and stories, especially if they're compared to the work of other "Jewish American" ...
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Critical Essay by Gabriel Miller
Fuchs does not offer solutions to … social problems. There are none.
This is not to say that Fuchs did not criticize the system. There is in his writing an ...
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Critical Essay by Richard Elman
The early stories [appearing in The Apathetic Bookie Joint] though colorful …, seem to me to have been done largely as hack work for hack magazines; and they, t...
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Critical Essay by Harold Beaver
[With] The Apathetic Bookie Joint Daniel Fuchs has at last made a comeback. It is a most welcome event.
For with this collection of his short fiction a prodigal ret...
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