Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955 in

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) is an American writer and a Professor of English at

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. Her most widely known work is the novel ''Dog'', which

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shows in 545 libraries and has been translated into Italian. She has also written the novel, ''Missing'', which was awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction. She is married to Glen Holland, a still life painter. They have a daughter.

Biography

Herman received a B.S. from

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and an M.F.A. from the

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, after which she was a James Michener Fellow. She has taught since 1988 at the

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, where she directs both the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and an interdisciplinary graduate program in the arts. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in addition to her James Michener Fellowship. In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of

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, ''A New and Glorious Life''. "Auslander" which appears in the collection was also included in ''American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories'' by Gerald Shapiro She has published two essay collections, the autobiographical ''The Middle of Everything,'' as well as the 2013 volume of personal essays, ''Stories We Tell Ourselves.'' Review, ''Kirkus Reviews'' Jan. 15th, 2013
/ref> Her essay ''Dream Life'', also appeared separately as a

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. She serves as an Advisory Editor fo
''The Journal'
with

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Roberta Maierhofer viewed Herman's novel ''Missing'' as a literary gerontology example of the process of redefining one's self in advancing age.

Bibliography

*Herman, Michelle. ''The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood.'' Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. *Herman, Michelle. ''Dog: A Short Novel.'' San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Pub, 2005. **Translated by Fenisia Giannini into Italian as ''La mia vita con Phil'' *Herman, Michelle. ''Missing.'' Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990. *Herman, Michelle. ''A New and Glorious Life: Novellas.'' Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998. (contains: "A New and Glorious Life", "Auslander", and "Hope Among Men") *Herman, Michelle. ''Stories We Tell Ourselves'' (contains "Dream Life" and "Seeing Things") Univ. of Ohio Press, 2013

References

External links

* http://www.michelleherman.com * https://web.archive.org/web/20131118060038/http://english.osu.edu/people/herman-0 * https://archive.today/20131119042520/http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/herman.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Herman, Michelle 1955 births Living people People from Brooklyn American women academics Ohio State University faculty American women writers Brooklyn College alumni 21st-century American women