Francisco Goldman

Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist and journalist.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He currently resides in Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York. He also teaches at Trinity College (Connecticut). In November 2007, he acted as guest-fiction editor for Guernica Magazine.

Goldman's most recent work, The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop? is a nonfiction account of the assassination of Guatemalan Catholic Bishop Juan José Gerardi Conedera, a crime perpetrated by the Guatemalan military. The book, an expansion on what began as an article in the New Yorker represents the culmination of years of journalistic investigation.

Works

• The Long Night of White Chickens (1992)
• The Ordinary Seaman (1997)
• The Divine Husband (2004)
• The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop? (2007)

External Links

• Lecture by Goldman on Cuban patriot José Martí's years in New York (1878-1895), from the Key West Literary Seminar, 2004