Jonathan Wilson is the author of nine books: the novels THE  RED BALCONY (Schocken 2023), A PALESTINE AFFAIR (Pantheon 2003) and THE HIDING ROOM (Viking 1994), two collections of short stories, SCHOOM (Penguin 1993) and AN AMBULANCE IS ON THE WAY:STORIES OF MEN IN TROUBLE (Pantheon 2004); two critical works on the fiction of Saul Bellow; a biography, MARC CHAGALL (Nextbook/Schocken 2007) and a memoir, KICK AND RUN: MEMOIR WITH SOCCER BALL (Bloomsbury 2013). 

His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Agni, The Literary Review, and The Best American Short Stories among other publications. His essays, journalism and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the TLS, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Tablet, Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, ARTnews and elsewhere.

He is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. His writing has been translated into many languages including Chinese, Dutch, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Russian.

He is Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate Emeritus at Tufts University where he was the founding Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife, the painter Sharon Kaitz.