Background
James A. Glickman was born on December 29, 1948 in Davenport, Iowa, United States, the son of Eugene David and Elaine Jeanne (Ginsberg) Glickman.
(This impressive first novel calls to mind All the King's ...)
This impressive first novel calls to mind All the King's Men--tales of private drama played out in the public arena. Through the eyes of characters who are absorbing, complex, and all too human, we see a telling picture of an election campaign in which all politics is not only local, but personal.
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1996
(Based closely on the known historical record, Crossing Po...)
Based closely on the known historical record, Crossing Point brings to life the American Revolution in all of its bloody detail. When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard family in Rhode Island, but he is soon engaged in service for the American army by Samuel Ward, head of one New England's most prominent families. Torn about leaving his beloved June and the other slaves that have become his family, Guy eventually sets out with Samuel Ward and a battalion of men on a treacherous, and legendary, trek to Quebec. The two men experience the inevitable toll the brutality of war takes, and it changes them forever. Upon their eventual return home, they come to realize the cost of war not just for those in battle, but also for those who stayed. Crossing Point vividly shares a little-known chapter in the national founding, and raises the question of what justice was fought for by the men who faced an uncertain freedom when the last shots were fired. Based closely on the known historical record, Crossing Point brings to life the American Revolution in all of its bloody detail. When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard family in Rhode Island, but he is soon engaged in service for the American army by Samuel Ward, head of one New England's most prominent families. Torn about leaving his beloved June and the other slaves that have become his family, Guy eventually sets out with Samuel Ward and a battalion of men on a treacherous, and legendary, trek to Quebec. The two men experience the inevitable toll the brutality of war takes, and it changes them forever. Upon their eventual return home, they come to realize the cost of war not just for those in battle, but also for those who stayed. Crossing Point vividly shares a little-known chapter in the national founding, and raises the question of what justice was fought for by the men who faced an uncertain freedom when the last shots were fired.
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James A. Glickman was born on December 29, 1948 in Davenport, Iowa, United States, the son of Eugene David and Elaine Jeanne (Ginsberg) Glickman.
Glickman studied at the Yale University, finishing it as a Bachelor of Arts in 1970. Also he graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop with Master of Fine Arts degree in 1972.
Glickman worked as an instructor at the University of Arizona Law School in 1972.
That same year he began to work as teacher of English at the Community College of Rhode Island. Now he is working there as a professor.
He was a faculty member and instructor of Radcliffe Seminars in Cambridge from 1985 to 1988.
(Based closely on the known historical record, Crossing Po...)
(This impressive first novel calls to mind All the King's ...)
1996Quotations: “My preoccupation in most of my writing seems to be about something William Faulkner wrote in A Requiem for a Nun, ‘The past is not dead. It isn’t even past.’”
Quotes from others about the person
"When you hear “American Revolution,” do you think Rhode Island? You should, as James Glickman’s marvelous and surprising novel Crossing Point makes clear….He has produced a thoroughly enjoyable novel which enlightens us about the origins of our land." - Robert H. Bradley, New Boston Post, March 7, 2017
Glickman married Elissa Deborah Gelfand on October 14, 1982 and they had a child - Daniel Gelfand.