Lazarre Seymour SimckesLazarre Seymour Simckes, playwright, novelist, psychotherapist, and translator from the Hebrew, is a graduate of Harvard College, Stanford University and Harvard University. His first play, Seven Days of Mourning, was staged at Circle in the Square, ew York. Clive Barnes cited the play's quality of fascination, of wild exaggeration, declaring it spiky, uncomfortable and yet intensely moving. Unique, wild, funny.He has taught writing at Harvard, Yale, Williams, Vassar, Brandeis, Tufts, and abroad as a Fulbright Visiting Writer at Haifa University in Israel and the University of Tampere in Finland. Recently he taught at Bar-Ilan University (Israel).Simckes is the recipient of a National Jewish Book Award for his translation from the Hebrew of the novel Becoming Gershona by Nava Semel, an Ingram Merill Foundation Grant, a Littauer Foundation Playwriting Grant, and two awards from the National Endowment of the Arts. As a practicing psychotherapist he has worked with multi-problem families, couples, individuals, groups, and incarcerated convicts. Read More Read Less