Paul Skenazy taught for more than thirty years at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with brief stints in Spain and at Stanford. He expanded and revised a novel by a good friend, Arturo Islas, after his death (La Mollie and the King of Tears, U. of New Mexico Press). Since he retired from teaching to devote time to writing he has had stories and essays published in several literary journals. His personal story about Chicago and Saul Bellow was selected as a “Notable” essay in The Best American Essays, 2015. Critical publications include a book on James M. Cain; articles on other noir writers; essays on ethnicity and memoir; a co-edited collection of essays on place in San Francisco literature; and a selection of interviews with Maxine Hong Kingston. He has published more than three hundred reviews of fiction and non-fiction for newspapers and magazines nationwide and for a dozen years was a mystery review columnist for the Washington Post and was twice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing.
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