Dan Jacobson (born March 7, 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African novelist and essayist. Many of his novels examine South African race relations, including The Trap, his first published novel. Among his awards and prizes are the 1964 Somerset Maugham Award for Time of Arrival and Other Essays and the 1986 J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography for Time and Time Again: Autobiographies. March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. ... The J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography is awarded annually by the English Centre for International PEN to an author resident in Britain who has written an outstanding autobiography in English. ...
Works
The Trap (1955)
A Dance in the Sun (1956)
The Price of Diamonds (1958)
The Zulu and the Zeide (1959)
The Evidence of Love (1960)
No Further West (1961)
Time of Arrival (1963) (essays)
Beggar My Neighbor (1964) (short stories)
The Beginners (1966)
Through the Wilderness and Other Stories (1968)
The Rape of Tamar (1970)
Inklings (1973) (short stories)
The Wonder-Worker (1973)
The Confessions of Josef Baisz (1979)
The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and Its God (1982) (non-fiction)
Time and Time Again: Autobiographies (1985)
Her Story (1987)
Adult Pleasures: Essays on Writers and Readers (1989)
DanJacobson was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 7, 1929.
Several of Jacobson's works have been adapted for the stage; THE ZULU AND THE ZEIDE was produced as a play on Broadway in 1965, A DANCE IN THE SUN was adapted as DAY OF THE LION in Cleveland in 1968, and THE RAPE OF TAMAR was produced as YONADAB in London in 1985.
The Jacobson collection was purchased by the HRHRC in four groups from 1989 to 1992, with the exception of one item which was received as a gift in 1966.
Jacobson led efforts to pass the California Clean Energy Act, the strongest renewable energy law in the country, which requires the state's investor-owned utilities to generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources such as wind or solar by the year 2017.
Jacobson also helped pass the Clean Water Enforcement Act of 1999, an enormous victory for California's waterways that established mandatory minimum fines for violators of the state's clean water laws.
Jacobson is also the Policy Director for the Environment California Research and Policy Center, the 501(c)(3) sister organization of Environment California.
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