AMOS OZ was born in 1939 in Jerusalem. At the age of fifteen, he left home, and lived and worked for many years on a kibbutz. His first book,Where the Jackals Howl,was published in Israel in 1965 to immediate acclaim. He is one of the leading figures of the Peace Now movement and has written and lectured widely on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Harcourt has published Amos Oz’s work for the past thirty-five years, most recently his memoir,A Tale of Love and Darkness,an international bestseller and the recipient of the Koret Jewish Book Award, among many other honors. nbsp; NITZA BEN-DOV is a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Haifa University, as well as a scholar of… biblical poetics.
Robert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew & Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.