Deborah Eisenberg
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Deborah Eisenberg (1945--) is an American short-story writer, actor and teacher.
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[edit] Biography
Eisenberg grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York City in the late 1960s. Her longtime companion is actor-writer Wallace Shawn. She teaches at the University of Virginia, where she is considered one of the most popular teachers.
[edit] Writing
Eisenberg has written four collections of stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). Her first two story collections were republished in one volume as The Work (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg (1997).[1]
She has also written a play, Pastorale, which was produced at Second Stage in New York City in 1982. Eisenberg has written for such magazines as The New Yorker and The Yale Review.[1]
[edit] Awards and criticism
Eisenberg was the recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story in the year 2000, an award granted for significant contribution to the short story form. She has also been the recipient of such awards as a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three O. Henry Awards. [2]
Critic Ben Marcus, reviewing Twilight for The New York Times, called Eisenberg "one of the most important fiction writers now at work."[3]
[edit] Notes
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