Michelle Herman

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Michelle Herman
Born (1955-03-09) March 9, 1955 (age 69)
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.S. (Chemistry & English)
M.F.A. (Fiction)
Alma mater Brooklyn College
Iowa Writers' Workshop
OccupationProfessor of English
Employer Ohio State University
Known forWriting
Notable workDog and Missing
SpouseGlen Holland
Childrendaughter

Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and Professor Emerita of English at Ohio State University. Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which WorldCat shows in 545 libraries [1] and has been translated into multiple languages. She has also written the novel Missing, which was awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction, and Close-Up, which won the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. She is married to Glen Holland, a still life painter. They have a daughter. [2]

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Biography

Herman received a B.S. from Brooklyn College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, after which she was a James Michener Fellow. She taught from 1988 until 2022 at the Ohio State University, where she was a founder of both the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and an interdisciplinary graduate program in the arts.

She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and many grants from the Ohio Arts Council and Greater Columbus Arts Council in addition to her James Michener Fellowship. [3]

In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of short fiction, A New and Glorious Life. [4] "Auslander," which appears in the collection was also included in American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories by Gerald Shapiro [5] and other anthologies.

She has published three essay collections, the autobiographical The Middle of Everything, as well as two volumes of personal essays, Stories We Tell Ourselves [6] [7] and Like A Song. A new essay collection is forthcoming from Galileo Press.

She is also an advice columnist for Slate.

Roberta Maierhofer viewed Herman's novel Missing as a literary gerontology example of the process of redefining one's self in advancing age. [8]

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References

  1. WorldCat item record
  2. "NCW--Michelle Herman". Creighton University - Nebraska Center for Writers. Archived from the original on 19 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  3. "Herman - English". Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  4. Reviewed by Patrick Giles for the New York Times , December 20, 1998 NYTimes books
  5. American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories , p. PA360, at Google Books
  6. Herman, Michelle (2013). Stories we tell ourselves: "dream life" and "seeing things". Sightline books; Iowa series in literary nonfiction. Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press. ISBN   978-1-60938-153-0. OCLC   816564656.
  7. Review, Kirkus Reviews Jan. 15th, 2013
  8. Maierhofer, Roberta (1999). "Desperately Seeking the Self: Gender, Age, and Identity in Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle and Michelle Herman's Missing". Educational Gerentology. 25 (2): 129–141. doi:10.1080/036012799267918.