Wednesday, July 29, 2020
J. (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Journalist and San Francisco State University Associate Professor Chanan Tigay has won the 2020 Anne and Robert Cowan Writer’s Prize for “The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible,” it was announced this week.
Born in Jerusalem, Tigay is now a resident of Oakland and a Creative Writing teacher at SFSU, though this year he’s at Harvard University as a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He has degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania and was an investigative reporting fellow at UC Berkeley.
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