Anna in the Afterlife
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Anna was ended.
MERRILL JOAN GERBER is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer.
Among her novels are THE KINGDOM OF BROOKLYN, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for “the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme,” ANNA IN THE AFTERLIFE, chosen by the Los Angeles Times as a “Best Novel of 2002” and KING OF THE WORLD, which won the Pushcart Editors’ Book Award. She has written five volumes of short stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, The Sewanee Review, The Virginia Review, Commentary, Salmagundi, The American Scholar, The Southwest Review and elsewhere.
Her story, “I Don’t Believe This,” won an O. Henry Prize. “This is a Voice From Your Past” was included in The Best American Mystery Stories.
Her non-fiction books include a travel memoir, BOTTICELLI BLUE SKIES: An American in Florence, a book of personal essays, GUT FEELINGS: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions and OLD MOTHER, LITTLE CAT: a Writer's Reflections on her Kitten, her Aged Mother…and Life.
Gerber earned her BA in English from the University of Florida, her MA in English from Brandeis University and was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship to Stanford University. She presently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
She can be reached by e-mail at: mjgerber@caltech.edu
See her web page at www.its.caltech.edu/~mjgerber
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