Although literary critics have delineated writers such as Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Wallace Markfield, Cynthia Ozick, and, certainly, Irvin Faust as American-Jewish writers, Faust considers himself an American writer who was born Jewish, with all of its varying associations. He stated, in an interview in 1977, "I have this Jewish-American base.... I don't see myself as a stereotype Jewish-American writer, and yet I suppose that out of that wellspring much has developed." Willy, the protagonist in Faust's 1971 novel, Willy Remembers, is of German ancestry and is rather anti-Semitic; in fact, he is anti almost everything except his own concept of America and his two sons. Buchta of The File on Stanley Patton Buchta (1970) has a middle-European heritage but is not Jewish. All of Faust's other protagonists are Jewish, yet religion or ethnicity does not play a highly significant role in their portraiture. All...