Joan Silber (born 1945) is an American novelist and short story writer. She won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Improvement.
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Biography edit
Joan Silber was born in 1945. She grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and obtained an M.A. from New York University. She taught at NYU and now teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.[1]
Silber's work has been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories six times—in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015, and 2021. It also appeared in the Best American Short Stories 2015, and won The Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Tin House, Epoch, The Southern Review, Agni, The Colorado Review, and other publications.[2]
Bibliography edit
Novels edit
- Secrets of Happiness (2021)
- Improvement (2017)
- The Size of the World (W.W. Norton, 2008)
- Lucky Us (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001)
- In the City (Viking, 1987)
- Household Words (Penguin Books, 1980)
Short fiction edit
- Collections
- Fools (W.W. Norton, 2013)
- Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (W.W. Norton, 2004)
- In My Other Life (Sarabande Books, 2000)
Nonfiction edit
- The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes (Graywolf Press, 2009)
Honors and awards edit
- 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Improvement
- 2018 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story
- 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction winner for Improvement[3]
- 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, finalist for Fools[4]
- 2008 The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist for The Size of the World[5]
- 2004 Story Prize, finalist for Ideas of Heaven[6]
- 2004 National Book Award, finalist for Ideas of Heaven [7]
- 1981 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for Household Words[8]
She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation,[9] the National Endowment for the Arts[10] and the New York Foundation for the Arts.[citation needed]
References edit
- ^ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Joan Silber Biography
- ^ The National Book Foundation > 2004 National Book Award Finalists > Joan Silber Biography
- ^ Katie Tuttle (March 15, 2018). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Winners for 2017 Awards". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ^ "2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winner & Finalists | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation". www.penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ^ "Los Angeles Times announces 2008 book prize nominees". LA Times Blogs - Jacket Copy. 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ^ Lauren Mechling (January 19, 2005). "He Tells the Story Of the Story Prize". New York Sun. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
- ^ "National Book Awards – 2004". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
- ^ John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum > The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award > Current and Past Winners
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Current Fellows > Past Recipients > Joan Silber
- ^ National Endowment for the Arts > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers > Past Fellowship Recipients Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine