In 1995 Braff entered Saint Mary's College of California where he earned an MFA in creative writing/fiction. He graduated from New York University in 1991 with a BS in Education. The wry humor and compulsive readability may remind readers of Jonathan Tropper or Nick Hornby, but the hard-won wisdom and disarming vulnerability in “The Daddy Diaries” is all Braff's own.”īraff grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and attended Columbia High School. Novelist Adam Langer praised the novel: “Honest and heartfelt, Joshua Braff’s novel about the perils of 21st century fatherhood contains more moments of truth than several hundred bestselling memoirs or self-help books. That teen longing for adults to act their age haunts long after the final page.”īraff's third novel, The Daddy Diaries, was published on May 5, 2015. In a four-star review of Peep Show, People said, “Braff skillfully illuminates the failures and charms of a broken family. His second novel Peep Show was published by Algonquin in 2010. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green was an ALA Notable Book, named to Booklist's Top 10 1st Novels List, and chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. Joshua Braff (born October 11, 1967) is an American writer.īraff's first novel, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, described as a Jewish coming of age tale, was published in 2004 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
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