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Edith Pearlman

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Edith Pearlman
Pearlman in 2012
Born
Edith Ann Grossman

(1936-06-26)June 26, 1936
DiedJanuary 1, 2023(2023-01-01) (aged 86)
Alma materRadcliffe College
OccupationWriter

Edith Ann Pearlman (née Grossman; June 26, 1936 – January 1, 2023) was an American short story writer.[1]

Early life and career

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Pearlman was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where she grew up in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood, the daughter of Edna (Rosen) and Herman Paul Grossman, an ophthalmologist. Her father was born in Ukraine, and her maternal grandparents emigrated from Poland.[2] She graduated from Radcliffe College.[3] She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts.[citation needed]

Her non-fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Preservation, and Ploughshares. Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo – has been published in The New York Times[4] and elsewhere.

In January 2015, her fifth collection of short stories, Honeydew, was chosen as one of Oprah Winfrey's "top 19 books to read right now".

Personal life and death

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Pearlman lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband.[5] They had two children.

Pearlman died in Brookline on January 1, 2023, at the age of 86.[2]

Awards and honors

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Source:[6]

Works

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Short story collections

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  • Vaquita and Other Stories. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. ISBN 9780822962113. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize
  • Love Among the Greats and Other Stories. Eastern Washington University Press. 2002. ISBN 9780910055802. Winner of Spokane Prize for Literature
  • How to Fall: Stories. Sarabande Books. 2005. ISBN 9781932511116. Winner of Mary McCarthy Prize
  • Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories. Lookout Books. 2011. ISBN 9780982338292.
  • Honeydew: Stories. Little, Brown and Company. 2014. ISBN 9780316297226.

Anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ Edith Pearlman, Author Spotlight, Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories
  2. ^ a b Chace, Rebecca (January 1, 2023). "Edith Pearlman, Writer Who Won Acclaim Late in Life, Dies at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  3. ^ [1] Archived June 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine "Love Among the Greats by Edith Pearlman '57", Radcliffe Quarterly, Summer 2003
  4. ^ [2] Works by Edith Pearlman, New York Times, "Travel" section
  5. ^ [3] Edith Pearlman, Poets & Writers, Directory of Writers
  6. ^ [4] Edith Pearlman website
  7. ^ "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist" (Press release). Book Trade. November 27, 2013. Archived from the original on November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
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