Mort Zachter grew up believing his Lower East Side baker family was poor. At thirty-six, he discovered the family secret: he is a second generation millionaire.

Dough: A Memoir is his story. It won the 2006 AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2007. Kirkus Reviews magazine gave a favorable review of Dough in their July 15, 2007 issue. Reviews from the Florida Sun-Sentinel and the L.A. Times have followed. Read an interview with Mort Zachter.

His essay, “The Boy Who Didn’t Like Money” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Moment, Weatherwise, Poetica, The Princeton Packet, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, The Queens Ledger, US1, and The Kelsey Review.

In the spring of 2006, he gave a public reading from Dough at the 92nd Street Y in NYC and in the fall of 2007 he continues to read from the memoir in the metropolitan area. Mort is currently writing a biography, Gil Hodges: The Man Behind the Miracle, which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2009.

In a prior life, he was an attorney/CPA and adjunct tax professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.