Pamela Erens Explained

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]

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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Notes and References

  1. http://www.rd.com/slideshows/contemporary-writers-read/ 23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now
  2. Web site: Meg Wolitzer on MATASHA in the New York Times!. 2021-07-14. PAMELA ERENS. 22 June 2021 . en-US.
  3. Book: MATASHA Kirkus Reviews. en.
  4. Web site: Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life – Ig Publishing . 2022-04-27.
  5. https://library.stanford.edu/projects/william-saroyan-international-prize-writing/winners-and-finalists/2008/2008-fiction 2008 fiction finalist | Stanford University Libraries
  6. Web site: Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books» 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners. events.latimes.com. 2015-11-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130424170625/http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/year-2007/. 2013-04-24.
  7. https://www.amazon.com/The-Virgins-Novel-Pamela-Erens/dp/1935639625 amazon.com
  8. Web site: Binghamton University - Academics: Schools and Colleges: Harpur College: English: Creative Writing: BInghamton Center for Writers: Binghamton Book Awards: John Gardner Past Winners . 2017-07-18 . 2018-01-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180124070621/https://www.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writers/binghamton-book-awards/gardner-past-award-winners.html . dead .
  9. http://www.pamela-erens.com/news.html Pamela Erens : News
  10. The Books We Loved in 2016. The New Yorker. 13 December 2016.
  11. Web site: NPR's Book Concierge.
  12. Web site: Best Fiction of 2016 Kirkus Reviews . www.kirkusreviews.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180124005903/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2016/section/fiction/?page=3 . 2018-01-24.
  13. Web site: Matasha – Ig Publishing. 2021-07-14.
  14. Web site: Shorter Pieces. PAMELA ERENS. 2015-12-06.
  15. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1978/06/25/page/121/article/writer-gets-a-novel-career-start-at-14 The Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1978, page 121
  16. http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/patriciaerens/ SAIC - Patricia Erens - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  17. http://thesmokingpoet.tripod.com/fall2009/id2.html The Smoking Poet Interviews Pamela Erens
  18. Web site: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2015 Fellow and Scholar Bios. November 28, 2015.
  19. https://www.facebook.com/sewaneewriters/posts/1015215064982287
  20. http://villagegreennj.com/arts/words-welcomes-maplewood-author-pamela-erens/ Maplewood Author Pamela Erens Talks About her Dark Side
  21. http://www.pamelaerens.com/news/2016/9/23/maplewood-literary-award Maplewood Literary Award — PAMELA ERENS

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