- Rose Moss
Rose Rappoport Moss is a
South African -American writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.Moss was born in
Johannesburg , and has lived in the United States since 1964."In Court", a collection of her short stories, appeared as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2007. She has published two novels, "The Family Reunion" (1974), short-listed for a
National Book Award , and "The Terrorist" (1979, published as "The Schoolmaster" in South Africa in 1981). A non-fiction book, "Shouting at the Crocodile" (1990) presents two defendants in a treason trial during the last days of apartheid.Among her more than forty short stories one won a Quill Prize from the "Massachusetts Review" and another a
PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Several have been cited inBest American Short Stories , been nominated forPushcart Prize s, selected for anthologies and translated.Her non-fiction has appeared in the "
New York Times ", "Los Angeles Times ", the "Atlantic Monthly ", and other similar publications and in scholarly journals. She is a contributing associate for the "Harvard Review ".She teaches at
Harvard Law School and the Real Colegio Complutense and theNieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She is a member ofPEN American Center and has served on the Freedom to Write Committee of PEN New England and as a judge for the PEN Winship Award for fiction. She lives inCambridge, Massachusetts and blogs on the Nieman Watchdog site.External links
* [http://www.rosemosswriter.com/ Rose Moss website]
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