Anna Solomon

Last updated

Anna Solomon is an American novelist. [1]

Prior to writing her first novel, she was a journalist for National Public Radio. [2] She then received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. [3] Her first book, the 2011 novel The Little Bride, is about the life of an orphaned, Jewish girl from the Russian Pale of settlement who goes to a South Dakota farm as a mail order bride. [4]

Her second novel is Leaving Lucy Pear [5] , a story about a baby that has been abandoned in a pear orchard. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

She is the two time recipient of the Pushcart Prize [2] and the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor's Prize. [3]

Solomon was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn, New York along with her two kids. [11]

Books

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret Atwood</span> Canadian writer (born 1939)

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zadie Smith</span> British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer

Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alice Hoffman</span> American novelist

Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James McBride (writer)</span> American journalist (born 1957)

James McBride is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.

Kathryn Harrison is an American author. She has published seven novels, two memoirs, two collections of personal essays, a travelogue, two biographies, and a book of true crime. She reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review. Her personal essays have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in Bookforum, Harper's Magazine, More Magazine, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Vogue, Salon, and Nerve.

Julie Orringer is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. She is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestseller, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories; her novel, The Flight Portfolio, tells the story of Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo. The novel inspired the Netflix series Transatlantic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elizabeth Strout</span> American writer

Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her nine novels.

Nikki Gemmell is a best-selling Australian author. She resides in Sydney, Australia.

<i>Count Dracula</i> (1977 film) 1977 British film

Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Produced by the BBC, it first aired on BBC 2 on 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Directed by Philip Saville from a screenplay by Gerald Savory, it stars Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula and Frank Finlay as Professor Van Helsing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyudmila Petrushevskaya</span> Russian writer, novelist and playwright (born 1938)

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. She began her career writing short stories and plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose.

Events from the year 1860 in Ireland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Burns</span> Irish writer

Anna Burns FRSL is an author from Northern Ireland. Her novel Milkman won the 2018 Booker Prize, the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction, and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lucy Knisley</span> American comic artist and musician

Lucy Knisley is an American comic artist and musician. Her work is often autobiographical, and food is a common theme.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sherri L. Smith</span> American writer

Sherri L. Smith is an American writer. Her novel Flygirl was selected as one of the American Library Association's 2010 Best Books for Young Adults.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ottessa Moshfegh</span> American author (born 1981)

Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh is an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.

Ayelet Tsabari is an Israeli-Canadian writer.

Lucy Katherine Mangan is a British journalist and author. She is a columnist, features writer and TV critic for The Guardian and an opinion writer for i news. A major part of her writing is related to feminism.

<i>The Nightingale</i> (Hannah novel) 2015 historical fiction novel by Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2015. The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France. The book was inspired by the story of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory.

Anna-Marie McLemore is a Mexican-American author of young adult fiction magical realism, best known for their Stonewall Honor-winning novel When the Moon Was Ours, Wild Beauty, and The Weight of Feathers.

References

  1. Siegel, Sophie (2016-09-22). "Interview: Anna Solomon". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  2. 1 2 "Anna Solomon | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  3. 1 2 Schaff, Sara. "Truth Before Accuracy: An Interview with Anna Solomon". Fiction Writers Review. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  4. Lambert, Josh (29 September 2011). "Bride Shipped from Shtetl to South Dakota". The Forward . Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  5. "Novel 'Leaving Lucy Pear' An Intricate Tale Of Secrets, Class And Motherhood". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  6. Beidenharm, Isabella (5 August 2016). "'Leaving Lucy Pear' by Anna Solomon: EW review". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  7. Leavitt, Caroline (29 July 2016). "Tale of an abandoned baby in Prohibition era New England". Boston Globe. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  8. Shipstead, Maggie (5 August 2016). "A Novel's Abandoned Baby Links the Lives of Two Women". The New York Times.
  9. "In 'Leaving Lucy Pear,' 2 Women Are Forever Linked By A Baby Girl". WBUR. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  10. Lemburger, Michael (Summer 2016). "Poverty, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Class in Anna Solomon's "Leaving Lucy Pear"". Lilith . Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  11. "Anna Solomon | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2019-11-28.