
Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Cambridge. His many novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Who’s Sorry Now? and Kalooki Nights (both longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and, most recently, The Act of Love. Jacobson is also a respected critic and broadcaster, and writes a weekly column for the Independent. He lives in London. Profile of Howard Jacobson in The New York Times. “The book's appeal to Jewish readers is obvious, but like all great Jewish art—the paintings of Marc Chagall, the books of Saul Bellow, the films of Woody Allen—it is Jacobson's use of the Jewish experience to explain the greater human one that sets it apart. Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, "What's your background" and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor? Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.”—-David Sax, NPR.
Books

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2014

Shylock Is My Name
2016

Mother's Boy
2022

Pussy
2017

Zoo Time
2012

Kalooki Nights
2006

Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
The Best of Howard Jacobson
2011

The Very Model of a Man
1992

The Making of Henry
2004

Who's Sorry Now?
2002

Granta Portugal 5
Falhar Melhor
2015

Roots Schmoots
Journeys Among Jews
1993

The Mighty Walzer
1999

Live a Little
2019

The Act of Love
2008

The Finkler Question
2010

In the Land of Oz
1988

No More Mr. Nice Guy
1998

Peeping Tom
1985

When will Jews be forgiven the Holocaust?
2013

Coming From Behind
1984

The Dog's Last Walk
2017

The Swag Man
2013