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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 in 1980. [1] Her work was an early fiction recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford, where she studied under Stegner himself. [2]
She has published more than thirty books, [2] and is a novelist and short story writer. She has published stories in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar [3] , Mademoiselle, Redbook, The Sewanee Review, Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, and many other journals. She published her first poem in The Writer at the age of eighteen and her first book of short stories, Stop Here, My Friend, at twenty-seven. [2]
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 three decades, she retired in 2020. Her literary archive resides at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library. [2] [4]
Her work is known for its humor and dark subjects. [5]
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