James Goodman 

James Goodman is the author of essays, short stories, and three books, Stories of Scottsboro, Blackout, and But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining The Story of Abraham and Isaac. His work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center, and since 1997, Rutgers University-Newark, where he is a Distinguished Professor, teaching history and creative writing. He is currently working on two books. One is about aphorisms about history, how they sometimes help us understand what history is (and what it is good for) and how they often lead us astray. He received a NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship for 2024-25 to work on the other, tentatively titled No Way Out, on Sidney Poitier, for the Significations series at Penguin Random House.