J. S. Marcus (born 1962) is an American novelist.

J.S. Marcus was born in Milwaukee, in 1962. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Wisconsin Law School.^[1]

Marcus' work has appeared in Harper's (1986 and 1990),^[2] The New York Review of Books,^[3] and The Wall Street Journal, where he regularly writes about real estate and art.^{[when?][citation needed]}

• ?: Senior fellow at the Remarque Institute of European studies at New York University^[1]
• 1992: Whiting Award for Fiction^[1]
• 2001: Santa Maddalena Foundation fellow^[3]'
• 2004-5: James Merrill House fellow in Stonington, CT

• The Captain's Fire: a novel. Knopf. 1996. ISBN 978-0-679-40184-1.
• The Art of Cartography: stories. Knopf. 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-55946-9.

• Raphael Kadushin, ed. (2004). "Everywhere". Wonderlands: good gay travel writing. Terrace Books. ISBN 978-0-299-19754-4.

• J.S. Marcus on Muckrack
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation