Merrill Joan Gerber

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Merrill Joan Gerber

Born	March 15, 1938 Brooklyn, New York
Occupation	Award winning novelist Professor
Nationality	American

Merrill Joan Gerber was born in Brooklyn, New York She has published twenty seven books,and is an award winning novelist and short story writer. 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.

[edit] Notable Books

"King of the World" and "The Kingdom of Brooklyn"

[edit] Education

Bachelors in English from the University of Florida in 1959.
Masters in English from Brandeis University.
Awarded the Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship from Stanford University.
Awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine for The Kingdom of Brooklyn

For publications and prizes see her website: www.cco.caltech.edu/~mjgerber

Novels: 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

Short Stories:
This Is A Voice From Your Past Chattering Man This Old Heart of Mine Honeymoon Stop Here, My Friend

Memoirs: Old Mother, Little Cat: A Writer's Reflections on her Kitten, Her Aged Mother, and Life Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence

Non Fiction: Gut Feelings: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions

...and other books