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(1934-1997) Writer. Richard Elman was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. He lived in Stony Brook, New York, and had taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He used several pseudonyms in his writing, including: Delmar Hawks, Michael Lasker, Fred McShane, Michael Parnell, Eric Pearl, and John Howland Stryker.

Full Name

Richard Martin Elman

Locations

Suffolk

Author's Timeline


Unknown

LITWORK

The Music Master's Diary
Sun & Moon Press.

Novel.

Unknown

LITWORK

Love Handles
Green Integer.

Novel.

Unknown

LITWORK

Love, Richard: Last Poems and Translations
Junction Press.

Unknown

OTHER

Elman taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.

1934

BIRTH

Richard Martin Elman was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 1934.

1955

OTHER

Richard Elman graduated from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, in 1955.

1959

LITWORK

A Coat For The Czar


Novel.

1967

LITWORK

The Twenty-Eighth Day Of Elul


Novel.

1968

LITWORK

Lilo's Diary


Novel.

1969

LITWORK

The Reckoning


Novel.

1979

LITWORK

Little Lives
New York: Grosset & Dunlap

Novel, written under the pseudonym John Howland Spyker and set in Washington County, New York.

1980

LITWORK

The Breadfruit Lotteries
New York: Methuen.

Novel.

1981

LITWORK

Cocktails at Somoza's
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Applewood Books.

Nonfiction.

1988

LITWORK

Disco Frito
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith.

Novel.

1991

LITWORK

Tar Beach
Sun & Moon Press.

Novel.

1997

DEATH

Richard Elman died in Stony Brook, New York, in 1997.

1997

RESIDENCE

Richard Elman lived in Stony Brook, New York.

1998

LITWORK

Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs
Albany: New York State University Press.

Memoirs.

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