Background
He was born as Reuben Lewis Steinberg in New York City.
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Burning Down the House (Nick Hoffman Mysteries)
(Nick Hoffman's State University of Michigan is a place wh...)
Nick Hoffman's State University of Michigan is a place where the Borgias and the Marx Brothers would be equally at home. Heading into the Christmas season, SUM is being torn apart by bizarre attempts to make it more diverse while an autocratic new provost pushes for a White Studies program and Nick faces not only a tenure battle but conflicting requests for support in a battle for department chair. With his professional life a mix of seasonal chaos and departmental warfare, Nick discovers that he's not only attracted to the outrageously sexy Juno Dromgoole and disturbed by these disorienting new feelings in his life, but also the target, along with Juno, of a vicious harassment campaign that escalates into stalking, assault, and attempted murder. There's certainly no shortage of suspects, only solid clues. The decisions Nick faces may change his life forever...if he survives.
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Winter Eyes : Roman German language
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Hot Rocks (Nick Hoffman Mysteries)
(When Professor Nick Hoffman and his partner Stefan return...)
When Professor Nick Hoffman and his partner Stefan return from a Caribbean vacation, Nick decides it's time to get back in shape at Michigan Muscle, a luxurious health club near the State University of Michigan. But every palace has its intrigue, and when Nick finds a dead trainer in the steam room, he’s drawn into a web of passion and privilege like nothing he’s experienced before. The prime suspect because he discovered the body, his academic and personal lives take unanticipated turns, and he gets a real workout in the bittersweet denouement.
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Lev Raphael
Edit ProfileEducation
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Michigan State University in 1986.
Career
He has published work in a variety of genres, including literary fiction, murder mysteries, fantasy, short stories, memoir and non-fiction, and is known for being one of the most prominent LGBT figures in contemporary Jewish American literature. He is one of the first American-Jewish writers to publish fiction about children of Holocaust survivors, beginning to do so in 1978. His Holocaust survivor parents were culturally Jewish but not religious.
As an adult, he changed his name to Lev as a part of reclaiming his Jewish heritage, and later adopted the surname Raphael to reaffirm his Jewishness and abandoned a German one.
Achievements
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He studied English at Fordham University and creative writing and English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he won the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize awarded by Martha Foley, editor of The Best American Short Stories for his first published short story which later appeared in Redbook. His first short story collection, Dancing on Tisha B’Av, won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Debut Fiction category at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990. He was also nominated for Lambdas in the Gay Fiction category at the 5th Lambda Literary Awards in 1992 for his novel Winter Eyes, in the Spirituality category at the 9th Lambda Literary Awards in 1997 for his memoir Journeys and Arrivals, and in the Gay Mystery category at the 12th Lambda Literary Awards in 2000 for The Death of a Constant Lover. He won the Crossing Boundaries Award from International Quarterly for "Losing My Mother", an essay contained in his memoir a Jewish Life.The judge was D.M. Thomas, author of The White Hotel.
Works
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Hot Rocks (Nick Hoffman Mysteries)
(When Professor Nick Hoffman and his partner Stefan return...)
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Burning Down the House (Nick Hoffman Mysteries)
(Nick Hoffman's State University of Michigan is a place wh...)
- Winter Eyes : Roman German language
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Hot Rocks (Nick Hoffman Mysteries)
Awards
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the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize; Lambda Literary Award; Lambda Literary Awards
Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.