Joshua Braff is a fiction author from New Jersey. His first novel The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, described by some as a Jewish coming of age tale,[1] was published in 2004 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, and drew some comparisons to J.D. Salinger.[2] He contributed a short work entitled "Exit 15W" to the collection of shorts about New Jersey entitled "Living on the Edge of the World" after his hometown of South Orange.[3] He has written for a number of literary journals[2] and is working on a second novel.