About John J. Clayton

John Jacob Clayton (born January 5, 1935) is an American fiction writer, teacher, and editor. He has published four novels including Mitzvah Man Texas Tech University Press), and Kuperman's Fire[2] (Permanent Press), as well as five collections of short fiction including Minyan: Ten Interwoven Stories (Paragon House) and Many Seconds into the Future (Texas Tech University Press). He was editor for the Heath Introduction to Fiction,[8] a college anthology published in six editions from 1977 to 1999.