Edith Pearlman

Edith Pearlman (born June 26, 1936) is an American short story writer.[1]

Pearlman at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards, March 2012

Life

Pearlman was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from Radcliffe College.[2] She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts.

Her non-fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation, and Ploughshares. Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo – has been published in The New York Times[3] and elsewhere.

Pearlman lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband.[4] They have two children.

In January 2015, her fifth collection of short stories, Honeydew, was chosen as one of Oprah Winfrey's 'top 19 books to read right now'.

Awards and honors

Source:[5]

Works

Short story collections

  • Vaquita and Other Stories. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. ISBN 082296211X. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize
  • Love Among the Greats and Other Stories. Eastern Washington University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-910055-80-2. Winner of Spokane Prize for Literature
  • How to Fall: stories. Sarabande Books. 2005. ISBN 978-1-932511-11-6. Winner of Mary McCarthy Prize
  • Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories. Lookout Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0982338292.

Anthologies

References

  1. Edith Pearlman, Author Spotlight, Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories
  2. Archived June 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine "Love Among the Greats by Edith Pearlman '57", Radcliffe Quarterly, Summer 2003
  3. Works by Edith Pearlman, New York Times, "Travel" section
  4. Edith Pearlman, Poets & Writers, Directory of Writers
  5. Edith Pearlman website
  6. "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. November 27, 2013. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  • official website
  • Trove
  • Commentary Magazine
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