Edith Pearlman
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Pearlman at the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards, March 2012
Life
Pearlman was born in Providence, Rhode Island and 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.[citation needed]
Her non-fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation, Ploughshares. Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo – has been published in The New York Times[3] and elsewhere.
She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband.[4] She has two children and a grandson.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
Source:[5]
- 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, shortlist, Binocular Vision[6]
- 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, Binocular Vision
- 2011 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, Binocular Vision
- 2011 PEN/Malamud Award
- 2011 National Book Award for Fiction, finalist, Binocular Vision
- 2008 Pushcart Prize XXXIII, "Door Psalm"
- 2006 Best American Short Stories 2006, "Self-Reliance"
- 2003 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, "The Story"
- 2001 Pushcart Prize XXV, "Mates"
- 2000 Best American Short Stories 2000, "Allog"
- 1999 The Antioch Review Distinguished Fiction Award
- 1998 Best American Short Stories 1998, "Chance"
- 1991 Syndicated Fiction Awards
- 1987 Syndicated Fiction Awards
- 1984 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, "Conveniences"
- 1978 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, "Hanging Fire"
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 0982338295.
Anthologies
- Kathleen Coskran, Calvin William Truesdale, ed. (1998). An inn near Kyoto: writing by American women abroad. New Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-89823-181-6.
- David Farley, Jessie Sholl, ed. (2006). "The Kiss". Prague and the Czech Republic: true stories. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-932361-33-9.
References
- ↑ Edith Pearlman, Author Spotlight, Pen/O.Henry Prize Stories
- ↑ "Love Among the Greats by Edith Pearlman '57", Radcliffe Quarterly, Summer 2003
- ↑ Works by Edith Pearlman, New York Times, "Travel" section.
- ↑ Edith Pearlman, Poets&Writers, Directory of Writers.
- ↑ Edit Pearlman Awards, official website.
- ↑ "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. November 27, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
Sources
External links
- Edith Pearlman, official website.
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