Rafi Zabor

Rafi Zabor (born Joel Zaborovsky, August 22, 1946) is a Brooklyn, New York–based music journalist- and musician-turned-novelist.
Life and work.
A graduate of Brooklyn College, Zabor became a jazz critic for "Musician" in 1977, and later became an editor for the magazine.
He received the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his first novel, "The Bear Comes Home", which follows an alto saxophonist – who happens to be a bear – in his pursuit of musical perfection.
Zabor's second book, the memoir "I, Wabenzi", was commercially unsuccessful and met with mixed critical response.
In 2008, Zabor received an NEA Literature Fellowship.
, he was reportedly working on a new novel, to be titled "The Bosphorus Dogs."
Zabor is also a jazz drummer.