Aryeh Lev Stollman

Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Windsor, Ontario, where his father was an Orthodox rabbi[1] and professor and chairman of the English Department at the University of Windsor,[3] Stollman studied at Yeshiva University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.[1]

He published his first novel, The Far Euphrates (Riverhead), in 1997. The book won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 10th Lambda Literary Awards, as well as being named to year-end notable books lists by the American Library Association, the Los Angeles Times and the National Book Critics Circle. The Far Euphrates has been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Hebrew. In the New York Times Book Review, Margot Livesey called The Far Euphrates "radiant . . . remarkable both for Stollman's eloquently understated prose and for the ease with which he constructs his artful plot . . . At the heart of The Far Euphrates lie the vexed questions raised by the Holocaust and its legacy: how we must try to solve for ourselves the riddle of God's existence and cultivate a sense of mercy in an unforgiving age."[4]

His second novel, The Illuminated Soul (Riverhead), was published in 2002 and won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Jewish literature from Hadassah Magazine, and his short story collection The Dialogues of Time and Entropy (Riverhead) was published in 2003.

His story "Lotte Returns!" was commissioned and broadcast by National Public Radio in 2008.[5]

Stollman has written the libretto for Awakenings, an opera composed by Tobias Picker, based on the book by Oliver Sacks, and commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.[6]

He is the husband of composer Tobias Picker.[1][7]

• The Far Euphrates (1997, ISBN 1573226971)
• The Illuminated Soul (2002, ISBN 978-1573222013)
• The Dialogues of Time and Entropy (2003, ISBN 978-1573223751)

• Official website