Michael Jesse Abolafia
| Michael Jesse Abolafia | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 20, 1995 Hackensack, NJ, United States |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Title | Writer and editor |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Amber Doll Diaz |
Michael J. Abolafia (born March 20, 1995) is a writer, editor, and literary scholar.
Academic Work[edit]
In 2017, Abolafia graduated as the valedictorian of Columbia College (New York).[1][2][3]. He delivered his Class Day commencement speech.[4]
Abolafia has focused on archival research in the fields of 20th-century English and American literature. In 2019, the Times Literary Supplement published the results of a discovery he made at the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham, Reading; using the administrative files of The Listener (magazine), the BBC's arts and culture magazine, he discovered dozens of previously unattributed articles by Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, Graham Greene, Louis MacNeice, and Elizabeth Bowen.[5] Several of the essays by Greene were reprinted in the Graham Greene Society's newsletter[6]; Abolafia also published ancillary pieces on editor J.R. Ackerley on the BBC website.[7]
Since 2017, he has acted as the lead researcher to Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Tom Reiss. He has worked with scholar S.T. Joshi, British musician David Tibet, and literary critic Edward Mendelson, the executor of W.H. Auden[8]. Some of his literary discoveries concern Ben Hecht, Arthur Machen, Count Stenbock, David Park Barnitz, Thomas Ligotti, and other writers.
As of 2020, he is at work on a biography of his great-uncle Louis Abolafia, the presidential candidate, artist, and East Village countercultural figure. He lives in Manhattan.[9]
Bibliography[edit]
Books[edit]
- (as co-editor) The Book of Jade: A Critical Edition. Hippocampus Press, 2015. In collaboration with David E. Schultz.
Essays and reporting[edit]
- "The Sacred Grove". Times Literary Supplement, 15 February 2019.
- "“Eccentric to the Healthy Social Order”: Inversions of Family, Community, and Religion in Thomas Ligotti’s “The Last Feast of Harlequin”". Vastarien: A Literary Journal, Spring 2018.
- "Scott McClanahan's 'Hill William' is a Gritty, Soulful Tribute to a Lost Appalachian Childhood". New York Daily News, 26 March 2014.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Columbia College announces 2017 valedictorian and salutatorian". Columbia College. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ Spitz, Jessica. "Michael Abolafia, CC '17, and Hui Yu Wong CC '17, named valedictorian, salutatorian". Columbia Spectator. Columbia Spectator. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ Anzidei, Melanie (May 16, 2017). "Rochelle Park native becomes Columbia valedictorian". NorthJersey.com. Bergen Record. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ "Columbia Class Day 2017". YouTube.
- ↑ Abolafia, Michael (February 15, 2019). "The sacred grove". The Times Literary Supplement.
- ↑ Hill, Mike. "Unknown Greene Discovered". Graham Greene Birthplace Trust. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ Abolafia, Michael (April 3, 2019). "The Listener's Lost Literary History". Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ↑ Tibet, David (January 4, 2019). Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock. Strange Attractor Press. ISBN 190722257X. Search this book on
- ↑ "Dead Reckonings Magazine". Hippocampus Press. Hippocampus Press. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
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