Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg
Eisenberg in 2009
Born	November 20, 1945 (1945-11-20) (age 66) Winnetka, Illinois[1]
Occupation	Short-story writer, actor, teacher
Ethnicity	Jewish American[2]
Alma mater	Marlboro College; The New School[2]
Notable award(s)	1987-88 Whiting Writers' Award 1987-88 Guggenheim Fellowship 2000 Rea Award for the Short Story 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship 2009 MacArthur Fellowship 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction O. Henry Awards, 1986, 1995, 1997, 2001.
Partner(s)	Wallace Shawn
Relative(s)	Granddaughter of Nathanael West[3]

Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short-story writer, actor and teacher.

Biography

Eisenberg grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York City in the late 1960s. She was an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books in 1973.^[4] Her longtime companion is actor-writer Wallace Shawn. She teaches at the University of Virginia. Eisenberg still lives in New York City.^[5]

Writing

Eisenberg has written four collections of stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). Her first two story collections were republished in one volume as The Work (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg (1997).^[6] All four short-story collections were reprinted in 2010 in The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (2010) ^[7]

She has also written a play, Pastorale, which was produced at Second Stage in New York City in 1982. Eisenberg has written for such magazines as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review.^[6]

Awards and criticism

Eisenberg was the recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story in the year 2000, an award granted for significant contribution to the short story form. She has also been the recipient of such awards as a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and four O. Henry Awards.^[8] In 2007, Eisenberg was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters ^[1], and in 2009 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.^[9] She won the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction^[10] for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg.

Ben Marcus, reviewing Twilight of the Superheroes for The New York Times Book Review, called Eisenberg "one of the most important fiction writers now at work. This work is great."^[11]

Bibliography

Story collections

• Transactions in a Foreign Currency. Knopf. February 12, 1986. ISBN 9780394545981. 
• Under the 82nd Airborne. Faber. 1992. ISBN 9780571164394. 
• All Around Atlantis. Simon & Schuster. 1998. ISBN 9780671024628. 
• The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg. Noonday Press. 1997. ISBN 9780374524920. 
• Twilight of the Superheroes. Picador. 2007. ISBN 9780330444606. 
• The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg. Picador. 2010. ISBN 9780312429898. 

Play

• Pastorale. Samuel French, Inc.. 1983. ISBN 9780573613630. http://books.google.com/?id=ZCEwCXZqhaoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Deborah+Eisenberg&q=. 

Other

• Ken Heyman (1988). Hipshot: One-Handed, Auto-Focus Photographs by a Master Photographer. Foreword Eisenberg. Aperture. 
• Air: 24 Hours. paintings by Jennifer Bartlett (Text by Eisenberg). H.N. Abrams. 1994. 
• Michael John LaChiusa (2003). Little fish. (Short Story Deborah Eisenberg). Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. ISBN 9780822219736. http://books.google.com/?id=NPyVB2ywLHAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Deborah+Eisenberg&q=. 
• Francine Prose, Mark Hussey, ed (2004). "On Mrs. Dalloway". The Mrs. Dalloway Reader. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780156030151. http://books.google.com/?id=NBvFfI7g5y8C&pg=PA176&dq=Deborah+Eisenberg&q=Deborah%20Eisenberg. 

Short stories

• "Transactions in a Foreign Currency". The New Yorker 60 (49): 28–44. 21 January 1985. 
• 'Some Other, Better Otto'. Picador. June 20, 2008. ISBN 9780330458009. 

Anthologies

• William Miller Abrahams, ed (1995). Prize stories 1995: the O. Henry awards. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385476720. 
• Richard Ford, ed (2007). The New Granta Book of the American Short Story. Granta Books. ISBN 9781862078475. 
• Laura Furman, ed (2006). The O. Henry prize stories, Volume 2008. Anchor Books. ISBN 9781400095391. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "American Academy of Arts and Letters - 2007 Newly Elected Members". 2007-03-13. Archived from the original on 2011-06-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20110617061712/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2007members.php. Retrieved 2011-10-18. "Writer Deborah Eisenberg was born in Winnetka, Illinois" 
2. ^ ^{a b} Smith, Dinitia (2006-02-28). "Deborah Eisenberg Gets Attention With a Fifth Book of Stories". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/books/28eise.html?pagewanted=print. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
3. ^ Ulin, David L. (2010-04-23). "Higher Calling". Tablet Magazine. http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/31795/higher-calling/. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
4. ^ "The Amazing Human Launching Pads". "Who Runs New York", New York magazine, September 26, 2010
5. ^ http://www.nybooks.com/issues/2011/jul/14/
6. ^ ^{a b} The Rea Award for the Short Story - Deborah Eisenberg
7. ^ Thompson, Jean (2010-04-18). "Don't Have a Nice Day". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/books/review/Thompson-t.html?ref=review. Retrieved 2010-05-01. 
8. ^ http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/eisenberg_deborah.shtml
9. ^ 2009 MacArthur Fellows_Deborah Eisenberg
10. ^ The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/15/arts/AP-US-Books-PEN-Faulkner.html?hp. 
11. ^ Marcus, Ben (2006-02-12). "Enigma Machines". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/books/review/12marcus.html. Retrieved 2010-05-01. 

External links

• Eisenberg archive from The New York Review of Books

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Name	Eisenberg, Deborah
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Short description	American short story writer, actor, teacher
Date of birth	November 20, 1945
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