Pamela Erens

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Pamela Erens is an American writer who appeared on a list compiled by the Reader's Digest of "23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now". [1] She has written three critically acclaimed novels for adults, a highly praised novel for middle schoolers, [2] [3] and the memoir/critical hybrid Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life. [4] Her debut novel, The Understory (2007), was a fiction finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing [5] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,. [6] Erens's second novel, The Virgins (2013), received accolades from many sources including The New York Times , The New Yorker and Vanity Fair . [7] It was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. [8] Her third novel, Eleven Hours, was published in May 2016. [9] It was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New Yorker, [10] NPR, [11] and Kirkus. [12] Erens's middle grade novel, Matasha, was published in June 2021. [13] Erens has also written essays and critical articles for publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. [14]

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Biography

Pamela Erens was brought up in Chicago. Her mother Patricia lectured on film at Rosary College and her father was an attorney. [15] [16] Erens was educated at the Latin School of Chicago, and had a novel published at the age of 14 entitled Fight for Freedom: A Slave Girl's Escape; it was written when she was 10. It concerned the escape to the North of an Arkansas slave girl, accompanied by Harriet Tubman. [15] [17] She went on to study at Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. Erens has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference [18] and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. [19] For many years she was an editor at Glamour magazine. [17] She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey. [20] [21]

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References

  1. ↑ 23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  2. ↑ "Meg Wolitzer on MATASHA in the New York Times!". PAMELA ERENS. 22 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  3. ↑ MATASHA | Kirkus Reviews.
  4. ↑ "Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life – Ig Publishing" . Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  5. ↑ 2008 fiction finalist | Stanford University Libraries Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  6. ↑ "Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books» 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners". events.latimes.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-24. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  7. ↑ amazon.com Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  8. ↑ "Binghamton University - Academics: Schools and Colleges: Harpur College: English: Creative Writing: BInghamton Center for Writers: Binghamton Book Awards: John Gardner Past Winners". Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  9. ↑ Pamela Erens : News Archived 2015-07-24 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  10. ↑ "The Books We Loved in 2016". The New Yorker . 13 December 2016.
  11. ↑ "NPR's Book Concierge".
  12. ↑ "Best Fiction of 2016 | Kirkus Reviews". www.kirkusreviews.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24.
  13. ↑ "Matasha – Ig Publishing" . Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  14. ↑ "Shorter Pieces". PAMELA ERENS. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  15. 1 2 The Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1978, page 121 Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  16. ↑ SAIC - Patricia Erens - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Retrieved 2015-07-24.
  17. 1 2 The Smoking Poet Interviews Pamela Erens Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  18. ↑ "Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2015 Fellow and Scholar Bios" (PDF). Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  19. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/sewaneewriters/posts/1015215064982287 [ user-generated source ]
  20. ↑ Maplewood Author Pamela Erens Talks About her Dark Side Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  21. ↑ Maplewood Literary Award — PAMELA ERENS Retrieved 2016-10-31.
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