Ann Harleman | |
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Born | Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. | October 28, 1945
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Education | Rutgers University (BA) Princeton University Brown University (MFA) |
Notable awards | O. Henry Award (2003) Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2004) |
Spouse | Bruce Rosenberg (m. 1981;died 2010) |
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Ann Harleman (born October 28, 1945, in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American novelist, scholar, and professor.
Harleman was born in Ohio. When she was four years old, her family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where her father worked for Bethlehem Steel. As a child, she wrote mystery stories in the style of the Nancy Drew novels. [1]
Aiming for a career in academia, she earned the B.A. degree at Rutgers University. In 1972, she became the first woman to earn the doctorate in linguistics at Princeton, [1] [2] and taught linguistics at the University of Washington. In 1976, she took part in a six-month exchange program in Russia. [1]
After she moved to Rhode Island in 1983, she became a visiting scholar at Brown's American Civilization department [2] and later a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design. [1] [3]
In 1988 she earned the M.F.A. in creative writing at Brown University [1] [4] and began to write short stories, submitting some annually for the Iowa Short Fiction contest. In 1994, her collection of short stories, Happiness, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. [1]
Harleman married folklore scholar Bruce Rosenberg in 1981. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990 [5] and died in 2010. [6]
Harleman is the author of the story collections Thoreau’s Laundry and Happiness, and the novels The Year She Disappeared and Bitter Lake.
Harleman has received numerous awards including the Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the Berlin Prize in Literature, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and the O. Henry Award.
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