Joan Silber

Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Improvement.

Joan Silber
Joan Silber visiting Barnes & Noble for New York book signing.

Biography

Joan Silber was born in 1945. She grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and obtained a M.A. degree from New York University. She taught at NYU and now teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and currently lives in New York City.[1]

Her work has been published in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize collections, and has also appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review.[2]

Published work

Novels

  • Improvement (2017)
  • The Size of the World (W.W. Norton, 2008)
  • Lucky Us (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001)
  • In the City (Viking, 1987)
  • Household Words (Penguin Books, 1980)

Short Story Collections

  • Fools (W.W. Norton, 2013)
  • Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (W.W. Norton, 2004)
  • In My Other Life (Sarabande Books, 2000)

Honors and awards

Joan Silber sharing a moment with audience at New York book signing, June 27, 2013, Barnes & Noble.

She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation,[7] the National Endowment for the Arts[8] and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

References

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