Eileen Pollack (born 1956) is an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

, essayist, and short story writer. She is the former director of the

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Program at the

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. Pollack holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from

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and an M.F.A in creative writing from the

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. She received the

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in 1996. She currently divides her time between

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, and Manhattan. Pollack's ''The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories'' (1991) features an Old-World male rabbi and his leftist female successor, and is among the early works of American Jewish literature to prominently feature the inclusion of

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as literary figures.Zierler, W. (2006). A dignitary in the land? Literary representations of the American rabbi. ''AJS Review'', 30(2), 255-275.

Works

* '' The Rabbi in the Attic'' * '' Paradise, New York'' * " In the Mouth" * " Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull" * ''Breaking and Entering'' * '' The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club'' * '' A Perfect Life''

References

External links

Official website
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in The New York Times Magazine, 2013

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