Shari Goldhagen

Shari Goldhagen is an American author of fiction.

Early life

She is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of a grade-school teacher and a salesman.

Education

After briefly attending Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. she transferred to Northwestern University, where she earned a journalism degree. Following this, she moved to Columbus, Ohio where she earned an MFA from Ohio State University.

Career

Goldhagen has been a journalist for National Enquirer,[1] Life & Style, and Celebrity Living Weekly. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and Ohiana Library Association.

She teaches creative writing with Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City.

She currently lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Books

Goldhagen published her first novel Family And Other Accidents (ISBN 0-385-51597-9) in 2006 to mostly positive reviews.[1]

Entertainment Weekly said the book "delicately mines the complexities of how loved ones seem close and far away -- often at the same time -- and how the smallest word uttered has the power to unravel or save. You embrace this book enthusiastically."

People Magazine called the book an "engrossing, beautifully written debut."

Richard Ford, in writing an endorsement on the dust jacket of Family and Other Accidents, wrote: "Ms. Goldhagen already, at a young age, is a fully self-possessed novelist, in command of large figurations, shrewed intelligence and wit, and a fine eye for the world and the American sentence."

Her second novel, In Some Other World, Maybe (ISBN 1-250-04799-4) was published by St. Martin's Press in January 2015.[2] It was selected as an Elle Lettres 2015 Readers' Prize[3] and received a starred Library Journal review.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cowles, Gregory (April 30, 2006). "Fiction Chronicle". New York Times. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  2. ↑ World Archipelago. "In Some Other World, Maybe". Macmillan.
  3. ↑ "ELLE's Lettres January 2015 Readers' Prize". ELLE.
  4. ↑ "Bergman, Goldhagen, Unger, with Historicals, Westerns, & Debuts Aplenty - Fiction Reviews, January 2015". Library Journal Reviews.