Joel Yanofsky

Joel Yanofsky

Joel Yanofsky is a Canadian novelist and literary columnist.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he grew up in the Laval suburb of Chomedey, where his parents had moved from the Montreal Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street.

Yanofsky's reviews and articles have appeared in "The Village Voice", "Canadian Geographic", "Chatelaine", "The Globe and Mail", "The Toronto Star" and "The Montreal Gazette", among others. He has earned the dubious honour of having once been evicted from the Ritz Carlton bar in Montreal in the company of John Updike.Fact|date=May 2007

He is also a journalism instructor at Concordia university.

His most popular novels are "Jacob's Ladder", "Homo Erectus: And Other Popular Tales of True Romance" and "Mordecai and Me : An Appreciation of a Kind".

External links

* [http://ctr.concordia.ca/2003-04/oct_23/13-yanofsky/index.shtml Tristan Baurick. "Mordecai & me: Journalism instructor finds passion in Montreal's most celebrated author." "Thursday Report". October 23, 2003.]


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