Ann Harleman (born October 28, 1945, in

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) is an American novelist, scholar, and professor.

Life and career

Harleman was born in Ohio. When she was four years old, her family moved to

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, where her father worked for

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. As a child, she wrote mystery stories in the style of the ''

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'' novels. Aiming for a career in academia, she earned the

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degree at

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. In 1972, she became the first woman to earn the

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in linguistics at

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, and taught linguistics at the

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. In 1976, she took part in a six-month exchange program in Russia. After she moved to

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in 1983, she became a visiting scholar at Brown's American Civilization department and later a lecturer at the

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. In 1988 she earned the M.F.A. in creative writing at Brown University and began to write short stories, submitting some annually for the Iowa Short Fiction contest. In 1994, her collection of short stories, ''Happiness'', won the

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Personal life

Harleman married folklore scholar Bruce Rosenberg in 1981. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990 and died in 2010.

Works

Harleman is the author of the story collections ''Thoreau’s Laundry'' and ''Happiness'', and the novels ''The Year She Disappeared'' and ''Bitter Lake''. * ''The Cost of Anything'', 1988 (thesis submitted at Brown University) * ''Mute Phone Calls'', by Ruth Zernova (translated from Russian), 1991 * ''Happiness: Stories'', 1994 (reprinted 2008) * ''Bitter Lake: A Novel'', 1996 * ''Thoreau’s Laundry: Stories'', 2007 * ''The Year She Disappeared: A Novel'', 2008"The Year She Disappeared"
''Publishers Weekly''.

Non-fiction

* ''Graphic Representation of Models in Linguistic Theory'', 1976 (as Ann Harleman Stewart) * ''Ian Fleming: A Critical Biography'', 1989 (co-authored with Bruce A. Rosenberg)

Articles

* "Kenning and Riddle in Old English." ''Papers on Language and Literature'', vol. 15, issue 2 (spring 1979): 115–136 * "The Solution to Old English Riddle 4." ''Studia Philologica'', vol. 78 (1981) * "The Role of Narrative Structure in the Transmission of Ideas", in ''Textual Dynamics of the Professions'', 1991

Honors and awards

Harleman has received numerous awards including the Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the Berlin Prize in Literature, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and the O. Henry Award. * Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976 * Raymond Carver Prize, 1986 * Chris O’Malley Fiction Prize, 1987 * Chicago Tribune

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Awards, 1987 * NEH Fellow, Institute for Literary Translation, 1988 * Rockefeller Foundation Artist’s Fellow, 1989 * Judith Siegel Pearson Award, 1991 *

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Syndicated Fiction Award, 1991 * Iowa Short Fiction Award, 1993 * Berlin Prize in Literature, 2000 * Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Prize, 2002 *

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

, 2003 * Goodheart Prize for Fiction, 2004 *

Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award wa ...

, 2004

References

External links

Official website

Iowa Short Fiction Award citation, with link to full text of "Happiness"

Full text of "Textual Dynamics of the Professions" (PDF)
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