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National Book Foundation > Author > Molly Antopol
Molly Antopol teaches writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Stegner Fellow. Selected in 2013 by the National Book Foundation as a 5 Under 35 Author, Antopol has contributed to NPR’s This American Life and All Things Considered, online at The New Yorker, and to many periodicals. More about this author >
Molly Antopol’s debut story collection takes us from America to Israel to the Soviet Union in critical moments of the last century. An absentee father, a former dissident from communist-era Prague, needles his adult daughter for details about her newly commissioned play when he fears it will cast him in an unflattering light. More about this book >
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Molly Antopol teaches writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Stegner Fellow. Selected in 2013 by the National Book Foundation as a 5 Under 35 Author, Antopol has contributed to NPR’s This American Life and All Things Considered, online at The New Yorker, and to many periodicals, including The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Elle, Oxford American, One Story, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel.