Career
He is the author of nine novels, most recently. In addition to his novels, he has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including San Francisco Chronicle The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Times, The Observer, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Observer, Harper"s Bazaar, People Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a regular book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal.
Foreign most of the 1990s he was a professor of Creative Writing at New York University, where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses.
He is currently Executive Editor of Delphinium Books (distributed by Harpercollins). Joseph Olshan is published in the United States. by Saint Martin"s Press and Berkley Books and in United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing and by Arcadia Books.
His work has been translated into sixteen languages. He grew up in Harrison, New York, and New York City and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
He lives in Barnard, Vermont.
Olshan is openly gay. He is not considered a gay literature writer but prefers to be considered simply as a "writer".
