Michelle Herman
Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which WorldCat shows in 545 libraries[1] and has been translated into Italian. She has also written the novel Missing, which was awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction. She is married to Glen Holland, a still life painter. They have a daughter.[2]
Michelle Herman | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 9, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.S. (Chemistry & English) M.F.A. (Fiction) |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn College Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Occupation | Professor of English |
| Employer | Ohio State University |
| Known for | Writing |
| Notable work | Dog and Missing |
| Spouse | Glen Holland |
| Children | daughter |
Biography
Herman received a B.S. from Brooklyn College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, after which she was a James Michener Fellow. She has taught since 1988 at the Ohio State University, where she directs both the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and an interdisciplinary graduate program in the arts.
She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in addition to her James Michener Fellowship.[3]
In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of short fiction, A New and Glorious Life.[4] "Auslander" which appears in the collection was also included in American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories by Gerald Shapiro[5]
She has published two essay collections, the autobiographical The Middle of Everything, as well as the 2013 volume of personal essays, Stories We Tell Ourselves. [6][7] Her essay Dream Life, also appeared separately as a Kindle single.
She serves as an Advisory Editor for The Journal' with Kathy Fagan
Roberta Maierhofer viewed Herman's novel Missing as a literary gerontology example of the process of redefining one's self in advancing age.[8]
Bibliography
- Herman, Michelle. The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. ISBN 9780803224261
- Herman, Michelle. Dog: A Short Novel. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Pub, 2005. ISBN 9781596921115
- Translated by Fenisia Giannini into Italian as La mia vita con Phil ISBN 9788884908698
- Herman, Michelle. Missing. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990. ISBN 9780814205037
- Herman, Michelle. A New and Glorious Life: Novellas. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780887482847 (contains: "A New and Glorious Life", "Auslander", and "Hope Among Men")
- Herman, Michelle. Stories We Tell Ourselves (contains "Dream Life" and "Seeing Things") Univ. of Ohio Press, 2013 ISBN 978-1-60938-153-0
References
- WorldCat item record
- "NCW--Michelle Herman". Creighton University - Nebraska Center for Writers. Archived from the original on 19 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
- "Herman - English". Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
- Reviewed by Patrick Giles for the New York Times, December 20, 1998 NYTimes books
- American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories, p. PA360, at Google Books
- Review, Rob Cline, "Herman engages with uninteresting topic" The Gazette (Columbus Ohio) 24 March 2013
- Review, Kirkus Reviews Jan. 15th, 2013
- Maierhofer, Roberta (1999). "Desperately Seeking the Self: Gender, Age, and Identity in Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle and Michelle Herman's Missing". Educational Gerentology. 25 (2): 129–141. doi:10.1080/036012799267918.