Steven Jay Griffel

Having one life has always seemed too limiting for me, so I write books to imagine other roads my life might have taken. In my latest novel, LEFT ON MAIN STREET, a left-leaning Jewish novelist, looking for inspiration and meaningful romance, swaps homes with an older woman, who happens to be the grande dame of a very conservative and Christian midwestern town.

In my novel FORTY YEARS LATER, a man faces a regret he has endured for four decades--and though it might cost him his marriage and implicate him in a murder--he decides to take a chance.

In THE DEADLINE, a man has one year to fulfill a lifelong dream: a simple enough challenge--but that was before a dying mother, a corporate honcho sister, a priestess of the dark arts, and sinister agents from the Mob conspire to derail his destiny.

In GRAND VIEW, I return to my most famous character, David Grossman. The story explores David's early relationships during a 1960s summer at a Catskill bungalow colony that shape his life forever. There are fathers, friends, forsaken illusions--and love. Grand View is where David's passions are revealed, passions that eventually lead him from success to crisis later in life.

In GROSSMAN'S CASTLE, David travels to Germany to assume a minor kingship. Along with his friends and lovers, he brings his insecurities and ambitions. But it is a special ghost that shapes his fate.

In THE ISHI AFFAIR, contemporary couples in frayed marriages play out their entwined dramas against a startling story of Native American adventure.