Capouya studied at
Columbia University in New York City and started his working life at
New Directions. From 1969–1981 he was Literary Editor of
The Nation and wrote for
The New American Review,
The New York Times and
The Saturday Review. Capouya published the work of
Ezra Pound,
Tennessee Williams,
Jean-Paul Sartre and
James Joyce. In 1971 he was appointed associate professor of English at
Baruch College, where he taught for ten years. In 1993 he published his first book of short stories,
In the Sparrow Hills, a compilation of stories based on his time with
Handelsmarine in
World War II. It won the
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. In 1968, he married Keitha Capouya who is a publisher. Keitha was the founder of
New Amsterdam Books. ==Literature==