Deborah Eisenberg
| Deborah Eisenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 20, 1945 Winnetka, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation | Short-story writer, actress, teacher |
| Alma mater | Marlboro College; The New School |
| Notable awards |
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| Partner | Wallace Shawn |
Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short-story writer, actress and teacher.
Eisenberg was born in Winnetka, Illinois. Her family was Jewish. She 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. Her longtime companion is actor-writer Wallace Shawn. She taught at the University of Virginia from 1994 until 2011, when she accepted a teaching position at Columbia University's MFA writing program. Eisenberg lives in New York City.
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). All four short-story collections were reprinted in 2010 in The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (2010).
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.
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 Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the O. Henry Awards.
In 2007, Eisenberg was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2009 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She won the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg.
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