Lev Raphael (born May 19, 1954) is an American writer of Jewish heritage.[1] He has published work in a variety of genres, including literary fiction, murder mysteries, fantasy, short stories, memoir and non-fiction,[1] and is known for being one of the most prominent LGBT figures in contemporary Jewish American literature.[2] He is one of the first American-Jewish writers to publish fiction about children of Holocaust survivors, beginning to do so in 1978.
Books in order of publication by series:
Novels
- Winter Eyes (1992)
- Let’s Get Criminal (1996)
- The Edith Wharton Murders (1997)
- The Death of a Constant Lover (1998)
- Little Miss Evil (2000)
- Burning Down the House (2001)
- The German Money (2003)
- Tropic of Murder (2004)
- Hot Rocks (2007)
- Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile (2011)
- Rosedale in Love (2011)
- The Vampyre of Gotham (2012)
- Assault with a Deadly Lie (2014)
Short stories
- Dancing on Tisha B’Av (1990)
- Secret Anniversaries of the Heart (2006)
Memoir
- Journeys & Arrivals (1996)
- Writing a Jewish Life (2006)
- My Germany (2009)
Non-fiction
- Edith Wharton’s Prisoners of Shame (1991)
- Stick Up For Yourself! (1992, with Gershen Kaufman and Pamela Espeland)
- Coming Out of Shame (1995, with Gershen Kaufman)
- Book Lust! (2012)
- Writer’s Block is Bunk (2012)
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