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Adina Hoffman
Adina Hoffman is an American essayist, critic, and literary biographer. In a 2012 essay called "Imagining the Real," published in the ''Raritan Review'', she described the difficulty of classifying the sort of writing she does, which is at once literary and documentary.〔 http://raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/files/article-pdfs/hoffman_xxxi_v4.pdf〕
==About==
Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1967, Hoffman grew up in Peterborough, New Hampshire and Houston, Texas, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1989.〔http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/03/05/hoffmans-89-biography-illuminates-the-life-of-palestinian-poet/〕 She has lived in Jerusalem since 1992 and writes often about the Middle East and its people, especially those who are overlooked in standard journalistic or textbook-styled accounts.〔http://www.bookslut.com/features/2009_08_014932.php〕
Her first book, ''House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood'' (Steerforth Press, 2000, Broadway Books, 2002) consists of a series of linked essays about her North African Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. It was described by ''Kirkus Reviews'' as “steadily perceptive and brimming with informed passion.”〔http://www.amazon.com/House-Windows-Portraits-Jerusalem-Neighborhood/dp/product-description/0767910192〕 In 2009 Yale University Press brought out her ''My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century,'' a life and times of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali. The first biography ever published about a Palestinian writer, ''My Happiness'' was awarded Britain’s 2010 ''Jewish Quarterly''-Wingate Prize and was named one of best twenty books of 2009 by the ''Barnes & Noble Review'' and one of the top ten biographies of the year by ''Booklist.''〔http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300141504〕 Writing in ''The Independent'', Boyd Tonkin called it “a remarkable book… A triumph of personal empathy and historical insight and a beacon for anyone who believes that ‘more joins than separates us.’”〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-week-in-books-salute-the-dark-knight-of-guyana-2003170.html〕 A 2011 Guggenheim Foundation fellow,〔http://www.gf.org/fellows/17058-adina-hoffman〕 Hoffman is married to MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole, and in 2011, she and Cole published a book they wrote together, ''Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza'' (Schocken /Nextbook), which has been widely praised, with Harold Bloom calling it “a small masterpiece”〔http://nextbookpress.com/books/347/sacred-trash/〕 and the ''Nation'' describing it as “a literary jewel whose pages turn like those of a well-paced thriller, but with all the chiseled elegance and flashes of linguistic surprise we associate with poetry... ''Sacred Trash'' has made history both beautiful and exciting.”〔http://www.thenation.com/article/161076/cairo-cordoba-story-cairo-geniza〕 In the Jewish press, the ''Chicago Jewish Star'' called it "captivating, with the drama of any good mystery… it has all the ingredients of a compelling work of fiction. Except that it's true."〔Gila Wertheimer, "Lost & Found," ''Chicago Jewish Star'', May 27, 2011, p. 7.〕
Hoffman is formerly the film critic for the ''Jerusalem Post'' (1993–2000) and the ''American Prospect'' (2000–2002).〔http://prospect.org/cs/author?id=87〕 Her essays and criticism have appeared in the ''Nation,'' the ''Washington Post,'' the ''Times Literary Supplement,'' ''Raritan,'' ''Bookforum,'' the ''Boston Globe'', ''New York Newsday,'' ''Tin House,'' and on the World Service of the BBC.〔http://www.ibiseditions.com/AdinaHoffman/about.asp〕 She is one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small, Jerusalem-based press that publishes the literature of the Levant.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/books/review/Donadio-t.html〕 Hoffman has been a visiting professor at Wesleyan University and Middlebury College, and in 2009 was the Franke Fellow at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center. During the summer of 2011 she was the Distinguished Writer in Non-Fiction at NYU’s McGhee School.〔http://mcgheemessenger.wordpress.com/〕 She now divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
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