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'''Lee Albert Siegel''' (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is a novelist and professor emeritus of religion at the [[University of Hawaii at Manoa]]. His 1999 novel, ''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3628202.html Love in a Dead Language],'' was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/05/reviews/notable-fiction.html</ref> and a bestseller in [[India]].

== Life and career ==

Siegel studied comparative literature at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and fine arts at [[Columbia University]]. He received his [[D.Phil.|DPhil]] from the [[University of Oxford]] for a dissertation in the field of [[Sanskrit]]. He then was hired by the University of Hawaii as Professor of Religious Studies, where he has taught ever since.

In 1988 Siegel was a [https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lee-a-siegel/ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow].<ref>[http://www.gf.org/88fellow.html U.S. and Canadian Fellows], John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellows page, 1988</ref> He has received numerous fellowships and grants including five Senior Research Fellowships from the [[American Institute of Indian Studies]] and the [[Smithsonian Institution]] (1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1996), four research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (1982, 1985, 1987, 1990) and one from the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. In addition Professor Siegel has been two Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching (1986 and 1996). He has been a scholar-in-residence at the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], including two periods at its [[Rockefeller Foundation#The Bellagio Center|Bellagio Study Center]] (1990 and 2003). He also was a Visiting Fellow at [[All Souls College]] of [[Oxford University]] (1997). In 2003, Siegel was featured in the television documentary series, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB0Lexfqm_o&feature=youtu.be Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour]. Siegel has been an invited speaker at numerous literary and scholarly events as well. He was recently a featured as a panelist at the [https://hbmf.sched.com/speaker/l_siegel.6zrv6cq 2018 Hawaii Book & Music Fair] and the 2019 Asia Society

Siegel has been called "one of the most difficult writers to locate on a map of contemporary American fiction."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel {{!}} electronic book review|url=https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/anatomizing-the-language-of-love-an-interview-with-lee-siegel/|access-date=2020-06-23|language=en-US}}</ref> Of Love in a Dead Language, a New York Times reviewer wrote that "while the novel's historical texts, both actual and imagined, give pleasure, they also tell an incisive history of Orientalism, Europeans' construction of Indian sexuality, the elision of exotic and erotic."<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Kama Sutra and Then Some|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/23/reviews/990523.23leclait.html|access-date=2020-06-23|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref>

His has two sons, Dmitri and [[imdbname:1186269|Sebastian Siegel]].

==Primarily nonfiction==
From 1978 until the late 1990s, Siegel published scholarly studies of Indian love poetry, comedy, horror, and magic. Many contain fictional elements.

*''Sacred and Profane Dimensions of Love in Indian Traditions as Exemplified in the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva'' (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series)(1978)
*''Dream-symbolism in the sramanic tradition: two psychoanalytical studies in Jinist and Buddhist dream legends'' (with Jagdish P. Sharma) (1980)
*''Fires of Love, Waters of Peace in Indian Culture'' (1983)
*''Laughing Matters. Comic Tradition in India'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987) {{ISBN|978-0-226-75691-2}}
*''Net of Magic. Wonders and Deceptions in India'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991) {{ISBN|978-0-226-75687-5}}
*''City of Dreadful Night. A Story about Horror and the Macabre in India'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995) {{ISBN|978-0-226-75689-9}}

==Novels and other works of fiction==
*''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3628202.html Love in a Dead Language: A Romance]'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999) {{ISBN|978-0-226-75699-8}}. Read [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/756971.html an excerpt] and a [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/23/reviews/990523.23leclait.html NY Times review]. It was named the New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
*''Love and Other Games of Chance: A Novelty'' (2003)
*''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo3533872.html Who Wrote the Book of Love? A Chronicle of the Sexual Life of an American Boy in the 1950s]'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005) {{ISBN|978-0-226-75700-1}}. Read [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/757005.html an excerpt].
*''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo5807001.html Love and the Incredibly Old Man: A Novel]'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008) {{ISBN|978-0-226-75705-6}}. Read [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/757056.html an excerpt].
*''[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo18969764.html Trance-Migrations: Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis]'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014) {{ISBN|9780226185323}}. Read [http://press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2014/Siegel_Trance_Migrations.html an excerpt].
*''[http://www.deuxmers.com/home/typerotica Typerotica]'' (Deuxmers, 2020) {{ISBN|978-1-944521-09-7}}.
*''[http://www.deuxmers.com/home/horseplay Horseplay]'' (Deuxmers, 2020) {{ISBN|978-1-944521-10-3}}

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.hawaii.edu/religion/cvs/siegel.pdf Curriculum vitae at University of Hawaii]

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