Michael Brodsky


Michael Mark Brodsky is a scientific/medical editor, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels, and for his translation of Samuel Beckett's Eleuthéria.

Personal background

Michael Brodsky was born in New York City, the son of Martin and Marian Brodsky. He attended the Bronx High School of Science. He received a 1969 BA from Columbia College, Columbia University, taught math and science in New York for a year, attended Case Western Reserve University for two years, then taught French and English in Cleveland until 1975.
Brodsky returned to New York City in 1976, working as an editor for the Institute for Research on Rheumatic Diseases. He married Laurence Lacoste. They are the parents of two children, Joseph Matthew and Matthew Daniel. From 1985-1991, Brodsky was an editor with Springer-Verlag. After 1991, he was with the United Nations.
Brodsky lives on Roosevelt Island.

Unpublished works

The following list of "Books by Michael Brodsky" appeared in Project and other short pieces:
The entries with a bullet-point have been published, or, in the case of the plays, performed. All novels but the last were named in a German-language newspaper article on Brodsky. Flesh is Flesh was named as forthcoming on the dustjacket of the first edition of Detour.

Published and performed works

Novels

Never published, these plays were performed Off-Off-Broadway in brief runs:
Apparently never performed, these plays were published in Project:
Critical reception to Brodsky's work has been strongly polarized, with the praise putting him in the company of some of the greatest writers, and with the rejections being openly insulting.

Highly positive

Highly negative