ERIC KRAFT is the editorial director of Kraft & Kraft. He grew up in Babylon, New York, graduated from Harvard College, and holds a master’s degree in teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  He has taught school and written textbooks, and for a time he worked the Great South Bay of Long Island as part-owner and co-captain of a clam boat, which sank.  He has been the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he was for a time chairman of PEN New England.  In 1999, he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. 

Education 

Fiction

The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy

 
“Peter Leroy’s adventures constitute one of our wittiest and most acute portraits of America at mid-century.  In the bargain they are the literary equivalent of Fred Astaire dancing: great art that looks like fun.”  —Newsweek

“Perhaps the most ambitious and rewarding literary enterprise of our time.”   —The San Francisco Chronicle

Prizes and Awards 

National Endowment for the Arts 
Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1986 


The John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, 1998 (awarded 1999)

Memberships and Affiliations 

PEN American Center 

The Authors Guild 

Employment History 

Editorial Director, Kraft & Kraft (1975-present) 

 

Senior Editor, Project Manager, Language Arts, Ginn and Company (1973-1975): co-directed elective course program in high school English, with responsibility for fourteen titles; directed all phases of manuscript development and editing for elementary spelling program, including financial analysis, personnel allocation, scheduling, and supervision of editors 

Associate Editor, Reading, D. C. Heath (1971-1973): content editor for sixth level of reading program 

Editor, Language Arts, Ginn and Company (1968-1971): assistant editor on elementary language arts program; later, as supervising editor, designed structure of elementary language arts program, including texts and all ancillary materials, directed all phases of project, conducted author-editor conferences, supervised staff of editors, planned field test program, planned elective-course program in high school English, coordinated preliminary work of authors and editorial staff 

Teacher of English, Reading Specialist; Arlington, Massachusetts (1966-1967) and Winchester, Massachusetts (1967-1968): taught classes representing a range of abilities, but, at my request, heavily populated with "slow" and "problem" students, reluctant readers, and potential dropouts; students produced magazines, stage drama, radio drama, films, and an arts festival and conducted first-hand investigations into language acquisition and local usage patterns; established a program in which retarded and reluctant readers in grades 1-6 dictated, wrote, edited, illustrated, and printed stories for themselves and their peers; co-authored 7-12 language arts curriculum for the town of Winchester, including specification of objectives at each level 

Eric Kraft
Editorial Director

Madeline Kraft 
Business Director 

eric-kraft@post.harvard.edu

SERVICES

WEB CONTENT PRODUCTION
VIDEO PRODUCTION
INTERACTIVE INSTRUCTION
TEXTBOOKS
GENERAL BOOKS

HINTS & TIPS

ERIC KRAFT