Merrill Joan Gerber was born in Brooklyn, New York She has published twenty seven books,and is an award winning novelist and short story writer. In 1986 Gerber won an O. Henry Prize. In 1993, she won the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for her novel, The Kingdom of Brooklyn. She currently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

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Education

• Bachelors in English from the University of Florida
  University of Florida
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• Masters in English from Brandeis University
  Brandeis University
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• Awarded the Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship from Stanford University
  Stanford University
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• Awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine for The Kingdom of Brooklyn

For publications and prizes see her website:
www.cco.caltech.edu/~mjgerber

Novels:
The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn,
Glimmering Girls,
Anna in Chains,
Anna in the Afterlife,
King of the World,
The Kingdom of Brooklyn,
Now Molly Knows

The Lady With the Moving Parts

An Antique Man

Short Stories:

This Is A Voice From Your Past,
Chattering Man,
This Old Heart of Mine,
Honeymoon,
Stop Here, My Friend,

Memoirs:
Old Mother, Little Cat: A Writer's Reflections on her Kitten, Her Aged Mother, and Life,
Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence

Non Fiction:
Gut Feelings: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions

...and nine young adult novels