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. Fuchs's writing talent developed early; after...

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 following, though small, includes such distinguished...

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 1932 he married Susan Hessen, and they have two...

Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto October 28 -- November 25 I will die. Of that, I am sure -- notwithstanding Andy Warhol's denial of death's certainty. "I don't believe in death," he said, "because you're not around to experience it." Warhol may...

Ben Fuchs has been Duxbury's jolly green dragon this season. Fuchs, a junior running back, has led his 8-0 squad to the Patriot League title and a playoff date with Bishop Feehan Nov. 27. He is the second-leading scorer in EMass with 130 points...

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 implied criticism of capitalism…. Fuchs's world is full of corruption and violence, and he demonstrates repeatedly that one must be dishonest and corrupt to succeed. (pp. 22-3)

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" writers, is that Fuchs has no designs on his readers. No large thoughts, no postcards to deaf intellectuals, no theories about the future of the novel, not even grudges against relatives. Fuchs is a pure novelist…. The traditional act of imitation, putting down a picture-in-language of how people live at a certain time, a certain plac...

[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 returns. His youthful ambition had been to record the trapped and alienated lives of his native Brooklyn…. A peculiar blend of irony with good humour gave his writing a flavour all its own. The move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1937, it now turns out, did nothing to queer the tone. If anything, it was enriched.