Bay Area artist and author Jonathon Keats has won this year’s Sophie Brody Award, a prize that recognizes achievement in Jewish literature. Sponsored by the Reference and User Services Association, Arthur Brody and the Brodart Foundation, the award was given to Keats for his 2009 collection, “The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six.”
Jonathon Keats is a San Francisco novelist and conceptual artist. His work has been shown at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, and he has been a guest lecturer at SFSU, U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis. He has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the MacNamara Foundation and the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.