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Merrill Joan Gerber

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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Merrill Gerber

Role
  
Novelist


Occupation
  
Award winning novelist Professor

Education
  
Brandeis University, University of Florida

Books
  
The kingdom of Brooklyn, The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn, This is a voice from your past, Anna in the afterlife, Old mother - little cat

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Merrill Joan Gerber was born in Brooklyn, New York. She has published thirty books, and is an award winning novelist and short story writer. She has published stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, 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 Hadassah Magazine for her novel, The Kingdom of Brooklyn. She currently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology.

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Education

  • Bachelors in English from the University of Florida in 1959.
  • Masters in English from Brandeis University.
  • Awarded the Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship from Stanford University.
  • Awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine for The Kingdom of Brooklyn
  • Awarded the 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
  • 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
  • Non Fiction:

  • Gut Feelings: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions
  • ...and nine young adult novels

    E-Books: Sixteen of Gerber's books are available at Amazon.com, BN.com, and at www.dzancbooks.org/merrill-joan-gerber-reprint/

    Her website is: www.MerrillJoanGerber.com

    References

    Merrill Joan Gerber Wikipedia