1. Leonard Michaels was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, and a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
10 Facts About Leonard Michaels
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Leonard Michaels attended New York University and was awarded a BA degree, and then went on to earn an MA and PhD in English literature from the University of Michigan.
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In 1986, the novel was made into a film, directed by Peter Medak, with the screenplay by Leonard Michaels, and starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Frank Langella.
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Leonard Michaels became a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine in the 1990s.
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Leonard Michaels's father, Alfred Bloch, born in Gailingen, Germany on August 8,1904, was a chemist who worked for Fuller Brush.
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Leonard Michaels's mother was Else Sondhelm, born in Dresden, Germany in 1916.
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Leonard Michaels was a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Leonard Michaels took part in anti-Vietnam war protests in the San Francisco Bay area, although he accepted a description of himself as an 'unpolitical man'.
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Leonard Michaels is interred at Oakmont Memorial Park, in Lafayette, California.
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Leonard Michaels had a daughter with his third wife, the poet Brenda Hillman.