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
  1. Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Joan Silber Biography
  2. The National Book Foundation > 2004 National Book Award Finalists > Joan Silber Biography
  3. Katie Tuttle (March 15, 2018). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Winners for 2017 Awards". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  4. Lauren Mechling (January 19, 2005). "He Tells the Story Of the Story Prize". New York Sun. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
  5. "National Book Awards – 2004". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
  6. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum > The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award > Current and Past Winners
  7. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Current Fellows > Past Recipients > Joan Silber
  8. National Endowment for the Arts > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers > Past Fellowship Recipients Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine
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