Life

Pearlman grew up in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

 and graduated from Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...

. She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts.

Her non-fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,...

, Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation, Ploughshares

Ploughshares

Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...

. Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds

Cotswolds

The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, an area across and long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...

, Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Jerusalem, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, and Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 – has been published in The New York Times and elsewhere.

She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...

 with her husband. She has two grown children and a grandson.

Awards and honors

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• 2011 PEN/Malamud Award
  PEN/Malamud Award
  The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The selection committee is composed of PEN/Faulkner directors and representatives of Bernard Malamud's literary executors.The award was first given...
  
  
• 2011 National Book Award for Fiction
  National Book Award for Fiction
  The National Book Award for Fiction has been given since 1950, as part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually by the National Book Foundation. Of all the awards given, the Fiction award is the only one that has been given consistently for the entire history of the Award...
  
  , finalist, Binocular Vision
• 2008 Pushcart Prize
  Pushcart Prize
  The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
  
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• 2006 Best American Short Stories 2006, "Self-Reliance"
• 2003 O. Henry Prize, "?"
• 2001 Pushcart Prize
  Pushcart Prize
  The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
  
  , "?"
• 2000 Best American Short Stories 2000, "Allog"
• 1999 The Antioch Review Distinguished Fiction Award
• 1998 Best American Short Stories 1998, "Chance"
• 1991 Syndicated Fiction Awards
• 1987 Syndicated Fiction Awards
• 1984 O. Henry Prize, "?"
• 1978 O. Henry Prize, "?"

Individual Short Stories

• "Abundance," Widener Review, Summer 1997
• "Accommodators," Antioch Review, Fall 1999
• "Adventures of Henriette," Whetstone, Summer 1997
• "Afternoons
• "All The Things You Are," Thema, Fall 1993
• "All Their Sins," Whetstone, 1993
• "Allergies," Antioch Review, Fall 1996
• "Allog," Ascent, Fall 1999
• "Assisted Living," Ascent, Winter 2008
• "Aunt Irma Adjusts," Kalliope, Fall 1990
• "Aunt Telephone," Antioch, Summer 2006
• "Art Of The Camera," Oak Square, Fall 1987
• "At Miss Elvira’s," Ingenue, April 1973
• "Beau Geste," Ascent, Fall 2003
• "Binocular Vision," Boston Globe Magazine, March 1993
• "Big Fish," Arts and Letters, Spring 2001
• "Big Sister," Massachusetts Review, Summer 2010
• "Blanche’s Season," Other Voices, Spring 1989
• "Book," New England Review, Spring 1982
• "Boy Meets Girl," Sunday Supplements, 1987–1989
• "Brief Lives," Thema, Fall 1990
• "Bun," Ascent, Winter 1981
• "Calvin," Witness, 2002
• "Castle 4," Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter 2009
• "Capers," Ascent, online
• "Cavalier," Witness, Fall 1996
• "Chance," Antioch review, Fall 1997
• "Charity," Ascent, Spring 1996
• "Christmas Eve," Evansville Review, Spring 1999
• "Coat," Idaho Review, 2004
• "Conveniences," Ascent, Winter 1982
• "Cook," Alaska Quarterly, Winter 1993
• "Cul-De-Sac", AGNI, 2007
• "Dear Hearts," Boston Review, February 1988
• "Deliverance," Ascent, Fall 1998
• "Devil’s Trill," This, Winter 1995
• "Diplomacy," Salamander, 2005/2006
• "Donna’s Heart," Ascent, Fall 1990
• "Dorothea," Witness, Spring 1993
• "Dower House," Writer’s Workshop, second prize
• "Dream Children," Post Road, 2003
• "Dreaming, Ascent," Winter 1981
• "Edict," Tikkun, March 1989
• "Eighteen Questions," Alaska Quarterly, Spring 1990
• "Elder Jinks," Antioch Review, Fall 2007
• "End Of The World," Larcom Review, January 2000
• "Envie," Thema, Spring 2004
• "Exit Nurse," Superstition Review(on line), Spring 2009
• "Eyesore," Ascent, Fall 1997
• "Family Trait," Ascent, Spring 1987
• "Fedra’s Wings," Santa Barbara Review, Spring 1997
• "Felix’s Business," New England Review, Summer 1986
• "Fidelity"
• "Finery," Ascent, Winter 2003
• "First Fruits," Sonora Review, Issue 52
• "Fitting," Kenyon Review, Winter 2000
• "Flip and Marian," Kalliope, XXVI No.2 2004
• "Folks At Home," Iowa Review, Winter 1990
• "Francs," Atlantic Unbound, December 2001
• "Gaffer’s Delights," Antioch Review, Fall 1998
• "Game of the Name," Jewish Spectator, Summer 1992
• "Gentle Heart," Crosscurrents, Fall 1998
• "Gifts," An Intricate Weave, 1997
• "Girl and Marble Boy," Atlantic Unbound, December 1999
• "Girl in Blue with Brown Bag," West Branch, Fall/Winter 2005
• "Going To The Barn," Gopherwood, Summer 1992
• "Golden Swan," Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall & Winter 2007
• "Good Life," Ascent, 2004
• "Granski," Antioch, June 2005
• "Guides," Ascent, Fall 2008
• "Handkerchief," Phoebe, Fall 1990
• "Hands Across The Sea," Redstart, June 1988
• "Hanging Fire," Massachusetts Review, Spring 1987
• "Hat Trick," Cincinnati Review, Fall 2007
• "Headwaiter’s Son"
• "Hearts And Flowers," Cincinnati Review
• "Her Day," Response, Winter 1990
• "Her Cousin Jamie," Salamander, Vol 12 #1 2006/7
• "Her Own Kind," Seventeen, May 1970
• "Home Schooling," Alaska Quarterly, Fall 1998
• "Honeydew," Orion, forthcoming
• "Honeymoon," Crosscurrents, Winter 1991
• "How to Fall", Salon
• "I Follow My Wife," Massachusetts Review, Spring 1993
• "I Remember You," Crosscurrents, Winter 1991
• "If Love Were All," turnrow, Summer 2002
• "It Is I," Verb Sap
• "Imre’s Fate," Sweet Anne Review, 1998
• "Inbound," Boston Globe Magazine, November 1995
• "Jan Term," Idaho Review, 2009
• "Jigsaw Table," Yankee, July–August 2000
• "June The Twentieth," Oak Square, Winter 1990
• "King of Sweden," Alaska Quarterly, Fall 1988
• "Large Lady," Crosscurrents, Fall 1987
• "Last Words," Sycamore Review, forthcoming
• "Ledivan’s Quest," Ascent, Summer 1991
• "Left Handed Girl," Thema, Spring 1991
• "Legacy," Ascent, Fall 1984
• "Life Jackets," Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall 2006
• "Life Lessons," Cincinnati Review, forthcoming
• "Lineage," Idaho Review, 2006
• "Liniments Of Love," Seventeen, September 1969
• "Little Wife," Ontario Review, 2008
• "Lives Of The Aunts," Iowa Review, Winter 1991
• "Lou In New York," Crosscurrents, Spring 1985
• "Love Among The Greats," Ascent, Winter 2001
• "Madame Guralnik," Midstream, Feb/March 2004
• "Madeleines," Kalliope, Spring 1982
• "Marlene Tighe Winokaur," Kalliope, Summer 1993
• "Mates," Pleiades, 2000
• "Menage," Carleton Miscellany, Winter 1975
• "Message," An Inn In Kyoto, Fall 1998
• "Mid-Day Fairy," Fiddlehead, Fall 1990
• "Mimi," Mid-American Review, 2005
• "Ministry of Restraint," Ecotone, 2008
• "Moving Day," Villager, Winter 1991
• "Nate, Dead and Alive," Emrys Journal, Summer 1992
• "National Characters," Story Quarterly, Spring 1984
• "Neighbors," Ascent, Fall 2001
• "New Women," anthology, Fall 1998
• "New Year’s Eve At The Litvans’," Ascent, Winter 1977
• "Night People," Northeast Magazine, Fall 2003
• "Non-Combatant," Alaska Quarterly, Spring 1992
• "One Not Chosen," Event, Spring 1992
• "On Junius Bridge," Agni, No. 61 2005
• "On Our Own," On The Page, Oct 2002
• "Quality Time," Mothering, Spring 1994
• "Poste Restante," Kalliope, Fall 1997
• "Prodigal Niece," Antioch Review, Summer 2004
• "Protector," Ascent, Summer 1988
• "Puck, Ascent," Winter 2007
• "Purim Night," Witness, Summer 2004
• "Rehearsals," Ascent, Spring 1993
• "Relic and Type," Pakn Tregr, Spring 2007
• "Rescue, Bananafish," Fall/Winter 1999
• "Ring Out The New," Seventeen, December 1969
• "Rules," Witness, Winter 1995
• "Safari Shrink," Northern New England Review, Volume 32, 2010
• "Self-Reliance," Lake Effect, Spring 2005
• "Sentimental Ballads," Passages North, forthcoming
• "Settlers," Commentary, January 1986
• "Shenanigans," Ascent , Winter 2003
• "Shrug, Witness," 1999
• "Signs of Life"
• "Silence," Hotel Amerika, Fall 2003
• "Silent Wound," Ascent, Winter 1983
• "Skin Deep," Antioch, Fall 2000
• "Skylight," Lake Effect, forthcoming
• "Snoop," Lake Effect, Spring 2008
• "Some Turbulence," Sound of Writing, Spring 1992
• "Sonya’s Place"
• "South Market," Pakn Tregr, Summer 2005
• "Speak to Me of Love," Lake Effect, Spring 2006
• "Stranger In The House," Tikkun, February 1993
• "Story," Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring 2002
• "Sunday Suppers," Other Voices, Fall 1987
• "Swampmaiden," Iowa Review, Winter 1989
• "Swans," Santa Barbara Review, Summer 1995
• "Sweet Counsel," Gopherwood Review, Winter 1991
• "Sydney," Ascent, Winter 1978
• "Sympathizer," Massachusetts Review, Spring 1995
• "Tale," Cincinnati Review, Summer 2009
• "Tenderfoot," Idaho Review, forthcoming
• "Tess’s Team"
• "Their Dan," Massachusetts Review, Winter 1990
• "Their Pride and Joy," Redbook, May 1988
• "Thought of You," Other Voices, Spring 1994
• "Timing," Magic Realism, 1996
• "To Reach This Season," Alaska Quarterly, Fall 1994
• "Tongues," New England Review, Winter 1989
• "Toyfolk," Ascent, Winter 1999
• "Transparent House," writerscorner.com
• "Trifle," West Branch, Spring 2002
• "Unravished Bride," Pleiades, 2001
• "Up," Kalliope, 2002
• "Vaquita"
• "Vallies," Ecotone, Issue 10, 2010
• "Vegetarian Chili," Happy, Fall 1995
• "Watching Isabel," Event, Winter 1995
• "Which Eleanor Am I?," Seventeen, May 1969
• "Wizard With A Magic Wand," Redbook, August 1972
• "Worldviews," Emrys Journal, Spring 1994

Short Story Collections

Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Drue Heinz Literature Prize

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize is a major American literary award for short fiction in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated in 1981 by Mrs. Drue Heinz and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel...

. Winner of Spokane Prize for Literature. Winner of Mary McCarthy Prize.

External links

• Edith Pearlman, official website.