Kate Bernheimer is an American

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, scholar and editor.

Works

Kate Bernheimer's first three novels, a trilogy based on Russian, German, and Yiddish fairy tales, "The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold" (2011), ''The Complete Tales of Merry Gold'' (2006), and "The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold" (2001), were published by

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. Amongst her other work, her short-story collection ''Horse, Flower, Bird'' was published in Fall 2010 by Coffee House Press. She edited the World Fantasy Award winning collection of short stories, '' My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales,'' which was published in Fall 2010 by

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in 2008. Her most recent book for children is "The Lonely Book," illustrated by Chris Sheban and an Amazon.com "Best Books of the Month" selection for May 2012; it was published in April 2012 by Random House Children's Books. Bernheimer is founder and editor of the journal ''Fairy Tale Review'', as well as a number of fairy-tale anthologies, including ''Mirror, Mirror on the Wall'' ( Doubleday, 2002) and ''Brothers and Beasts'' (

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, 2007). Bernheimer is the co-curator and co-editor (with her brother, architect Andrew Bernheimer) of
Fairy Tale Architecture
, published by Places Journal. Bernheimer was also among a list of contributors to ''The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing'' which released in spring of 2013. She has a BA from

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References

External links

''UL Announces Writer-In-Residence Kate Bernheimer''
University of Louisiana (08/05/2009), Retrieved 23 August 2010 * in French
la petite fille qui vivait dans le château du musée
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernheimer, Kate Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Wesleyan University alumni Fairy tale scholars American folklorists Women folklorists American women novelists American women short story writers American women children's writers 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American short story writers American children's writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers