Raymond Obstfeld (born January 22, 1952) is an American writer of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and screenplays as well as a professor of English at Orange Coast College.
[2] His parents rebuilt the store, but these events informed Obstfeld’s later political activism as well as his writing.
After a year living in San Francisco working odd jobs, he finished his first novel and got an agent.
In 1974, he returned to graduate school at the University of California, Davis, where he studied poetry under the famed poet Karl Shapiro.
After writing over a dozen thrillers, Westerns, and occult novels, he decided to return to mainstream literary fiction that he had written in graduate school.
• Hungry Women, writing as Laramie Dunaway (Warner, 1990) • Borrowed Lives, writing as Laramie Dunaway (Warner, 1993) • The Joker and the Thief (Delacorte, 1993) • Writer’s Digest Handbook of Novel Writing (Writer’s Digest Books, 1993) • Lessons in Survival writing as Laramie Dunaway (Warner, 1994) • Earth Angel (Warner Books, 1995) • Kinky Cats, Immortal Amoebas, and Nine-Armed Octopuses: Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Behaviors in the Animal World (HarperCollins, 1997) • JabberRock (Henry Holt, 1997).
editorial advisor to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Grand Central, 2017) • Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Little Brown Books, 2017) 1992 - Delacorte Young Adult Novel Award for Joker and the Thief 1981 - Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award for Dead Heat 2013 - NAACP Image Award for What Color Is My World 2017 - Nominated NAACP Image Award for Becoming Kareem[7] Obstfeld married Loretta Obstfeld, an award-winning poet and English professor at Orange Coast College, in 1990.