Merrill Joan Gerber (born March 15, 1938) is an American writer. She is an O. Henry Award winner.

Biography

Gerber was born in

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, March 15, 1938. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the

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in 1959, and a Masters in English from

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

. She has published thirty books, and is a novelist and short story writer. She has published stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, Mademoiselle, Redbook, The Sewanee Review, Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, and many other journals. In 1986 Gerber won an O. Henry Prize. In 1993, she won the Ribalow Award from ''

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'' for her novel, The Kingdom of Brooklyn. She currently teaches fiction writing at the

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. Her literary archive resides at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library.

Awards

*Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship from

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*Harold Ribalow Prize from ''Hadassah Magazine'' for The Kingdom of Brooklyn *Pushcart Editors' Book Award for King of the World

Books

Novels: (These are also in e book format) *''The Hysterectomy Waltz'' *''The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn'' *''Glimmering Girls'' *''Anna in Chains'' *''Anna in the Afterlife'' *''King of the World'' *''The Kingdom of Brooklyn'' *''Now Molly Knows'' *''The Lady With the Moving Parts'' *''An Antique Man'' She also wrote nine young adult novels Short Stories: *"This Is A Voice From Your Past" *"Chattering Man" *"This Old Heart of Mine" *"Honeymoon" *"Stop Here, My Friend" Memoirs: *''Old Mother, Little Cat: A Writer's Reflections on her Kitten, Her Aged Mother, and Life'' *''Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence'' *''Beauty and the Breast: A Tale of Breast Cancer, Love and Friendship'' Non Fiction: *''Gut Feelings: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions''

External links

Official website

Merrill Joan Gerbers website
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