From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rose Moss
Rose Moss
Rose Rappoport Moss is an American writer born in ism at Harvard. She is a member of PEN American Cen-
South Africa. She has published novels, short stories, ter and has served on the Freedom to Write Committee
words for music and nonfiction.[1] of PEN New England and as a judge for the PEN Winship
Moss was born in Johannesburg, and has lived in the Award for fiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
United States since 1964. and blogs on the Nieman Watchdog site.
In Court, a collection of her short stories, appeared as
a Penguin Modern Classic in 2007. She has published two
novels, The Family Reunion (1974), short-listed for a Na-
References
tional Book Award, and The Terrorist (1979, published as [1] Rose Moss website
The Schoolmaster in South Africa in 1981). A non-fiction
book, Shouting at the Crocodile (1990) presents two defen-
dants, Popo Molefe and Mosiuoa Lekota, in the Delmas
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Treason Trial during the last days of apartheid. In 2008, • Rose Moss website
Lekota became a prime mover of a new political party in Persondata
South Africa, the Congress of the People, COPE. Name Moss, Rose
Among her more than forty short stories one won a
Alternative names
Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another a
PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Several have been cited in Short description
Best American Short Stories, been nominated for Push- Date of birth
cart Prizes, selected for anthologies and translated. Place of birth
Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and other similar Date of death
publications and in scholarly journals. She is a contribut- Place of death
ing associate for the Harvard Review.
She teaches at Harvard Law School and the Real Cole-
gio Complutense and the Nieman Foundation for Journal-
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