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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)
NationalityAmerican
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

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 Magazine, 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

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

Source:[6]

Works

Short story collections

  • Vaquita and Other Stories. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. ISBN 082296211X. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize
  • Love Among the Greats and Other Stories. Eastern Washington University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-910055-80-2. Winner of Spokane Prize for Literature
  • How to Fall: stories. Sarabande Books. 2005. ISBN 978-1-932511-11-6. Winner of Mary McCarthy Prize
  • Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories. Lookout Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0982338292.
  • Honeydew: Stories. Little, Brown and Company. 2014. ISBN 978-0316297226.

Anthologies

References

  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.