Daniel Fuchs Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 "... Read more

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["The Apathetic Bookie Joint" is] a collection of those stories the author wishes most to preserve, and a hitherto-unpublished Hollywood novella, �... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more