Michael LaVigne
Michael Lavigne was born in Newark, New Jersey, and educated at Millersville State College and the University of Chicago, where he did graduate work on the Committee on Social Thought. His first novel, Not Me, received the Sami Rohr Choice Award for emerging Jewish writers and was named an American Library Association Sophie Brody Honor Book and a Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection; it was also translated into three languages. Lavigne has worked extensively in advertising, for which he...See more
Michael Lavigne was born in Newark, New Jersey, and educated at Millersville State College and the University of Chicago, where he did graduate work on the Committee on Social Thought. His first novel, Not Me, received the Sami Rohr Choice Award for emerging Jewish writers and was named an American Library Association Sophie Brody Honor Book and a Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection; it was also translated into three languages. Lavigne has worked extensively in advertising, for which he has won many awards, is a founder of the Tauber Jewish Studies Program at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, and spent three years living and working in the Soviet Union. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Gayle Geary. See less
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Michael LaVigne book reviews
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Not Me
Family, loyalty, history, guilt
Michael searches through his ailing father's journals for the truth of his father's past even as Michael reflects on his own past, searching for his own identity. This is a fascinating book. Read More
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Not Me
Patrimony and Transformation
by MORROW, Apr 10, 2007
This is a first novel. It suffers from cliche at times, and in the end gets terribly sentimental and self-conscious about being an American Jew in one's fifties without having understood what being ... Read More