Merrill Joan Gerber
Merrill Joan Gerber is an American writer. She is an O. Henry Award winner.Biography
Gerber was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1938. She received a Bachelors in English from the University of Florida in 1959, and a
Masters in English from Brandeis University.
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.Awards
Novels:
- 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
She also wrote nine young adult novels
Short Stories:
Memoirs:
- Old Mother, Little Cat: A Writer's Reflections on her Kitten, Her Aged Mother, and Life
- Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence
Beauty and the Breast: A Tale of Breast Cancer, Love and Friendship
Non Fiction:
- Gut Feelings: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions
