Rafi Zabor

Rafi Zabor was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He has
worked and recorded as a jazz drummer and written about
music for Musician, Playboy, and the Village Voice, and
about dervishes in Istanbul for Harper's. His novel, The
Bear Comes Home, won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 and was
voted one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books of the Year.
He still lives in Brooklyn, where he is finishing the second
volume of I, Wabenzi.