In his career as a novelist, short-fiction writer, and essayist, Dan Jacobson once remarked, he had gone around the course twice. At this point in his prolific career it would be more exact to say that he has circled the course three times. In the...

Writer, critic, and teacher Dan Jacobson's writing seems haunted, both by his South African origins and by his Jewish heritage. A pioneer in South African fiction, he has written strikingly about his homeland and has received acclaim for his literary...

Born in South Africa in 1929, Dan Jacobson writes strikingly about his homeland. A pioneer in South African fiction, he has won praise for his work on this and other subjects from critics and a certain amount of popularity with the public in both...

Author Dan Jacobson (born 1929) used his experiences as a child growing up in South Africa to mold his writings about human nature. Dan Jacobson was born March 7, 1929, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his parents' families had come to avoid the...