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Merrill Joan Gerber | |
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| Born | March 15, 1938 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Award winning novelist Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Florida Brandeis University |
Merrill Joan Gerber (born March 15, 1938) is an American writer. She is an O. Henry Award winner.
Gerber was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1938. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1959, and a Masters in English from Brandeis University.
She has published thirty books, and is a novelist and short story writer. She has published stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, Mademoiselle, Redbook, The Sewanee Review, Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, and many other journals. 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. After teaching fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology for 3 decades, she retired in 2020. Her literary archive resides at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library.
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