Jonathan Baumbach
| Jonathan Baumbach | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 5, 1933 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, film critic |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Brooklyn College Columbia University. |
| Spouse | Georgia Brown |
| Children | Noah Baumbach |
Jonathan Baumbach (born July 5, 1933) is an American author, academic and film critic.
Baumbach was born to a Jewish family in New York City, His father, Harold Baumbach, was a painter and academic whose disdain for earning tenure at the University of Iowa and various other schools resulted in him moving every year for the first six years of Jonathan's life “looking for a new place to paint."
He received a B.A. in English from Brooklyn College in 1955. Baumbach also earned an M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University in 1956 and a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University in 1961. Following two years of military service (1956-1958), he was an instructor of English at Stanford (1958-1960) before holding assistant professorships at Ohio State University (1961-1964) and New York University (1964-1966). He returned to Brooklyn College as an associate professor in 1966 and was promoted to full professor in 1969. From 1975 to 2001, he was director of the College's M.F.A. fiction program. He also held visiting professorships at the University of Washington (1979-1980), Princeton University (1990-1991) and Brown University (1994). During the late 1950s, he was a contributor to Film Culture magazine before publishing two novels and a monograph on American fiction in the 1960s.
Having had his third novel rejected 32 times, he and Peter Spielberg founded the author-run publishing house Fiction Collective in 1974; one of the first titles published was Baumbach's Reruns. Later reorganized as FC2, the collective has since published many emerging writers (including Russell Banks and Mark Leyner) and does so currently through the University of Alabama Press. Although he remains a board member, Baumbach's own involvement as writer with FC2 finished when the collective rejected his novel B in 2002; it was ultimately published elsewhere. Following Reruns, he has published nine additional novels, several collections of short fiction and his collected film criticism.
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