Career
Braff"s first novel, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, described as a Jewish coming of age tale, was published in 2004 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green was an American Library Association Notable Book, named to Booklist"s Top 10 1st Novels List, and chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program His second novel Peep Show was published by Algonquin in 2010.
In a four-star review of Peep Show, People Magazine said, “Braff skillfully illuminates the failures and charms of a broken family.
That teen longing for adults to act their age haunts long after the final page.”
Braff"s third novel, The Daddy Diaries, will be published on May 5, 2015. Novelist Adam Langer (The Thieves of Manhattan) had this to say about The Daddy Diaries: “Honest and heartfelt, Joshua Braff’s novel about the perils of 21st century fatherhood contains more moments of truth than several hundred bestselling memoirs or self-help books
Braff grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, and attended Columbia High School. He graduated from New York University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Education.
In 1995 Braff entered Saint Mary's College of California where he earned an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing/fiction.
He contributed a short work entitled "Exit 15W" to the collection of shorts about New Jersey entitled Living on the Edge of the World after his hometown of South Orange. Joshua is the older brother of actor-director Zach Braff.