Blumenthal, Michael

LC control no.	n 80119246
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3552.L849
Personal name heading	Blumenthal, Michael *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Found in	His Sympathetic magic, c1980: t.p. (Michael Blumenthal) p. 93 (writer/editor for Time-Life Books, Alex., Va.) His Laps, 1984: CIP t.p. (Michael Blumenthal) CIP data sheet (b. 3/8/49) Just three minutes, please, 2014: ECIP t.p. (Michael Blumenthal) data view (Michael C. Blumenthal; March 8, 1949 in Vineland, New Jersey; presently Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic at West Virginia University College of Law; author of eight books of poetry, most recently No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012, published by the Etruscan Press in 2012; a graduate of Cornell Law School and formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is also the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002); his novel Weinstock Among The Dying, which won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, has just been re-issued in paperback, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, When History Enters the House, was published in 1998; frequent translator from German, French, and Hungarian and former psychotherapist, he spent a month in South Africa in May 2007 working with orphaned infant chacma baboons at the C.A.R.E. foundation, an experience about which he has written for Natural History and The Washington Post Magazine; his book-length account of this experience, "Because They Needed Me": The Incredible Struggle of Rita Miljo To Save The Baboons of South Africa, was published in 2012; his first collection of short stories, The Greatest Jewish-American Lover in Hungarian History, is also forthcoming in 2014)