Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955, in

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) is an American writer and Professor Emerita of English at

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. Her most widely known work is the novel ''Dog'', which

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shows in 545 libraries and has been translated into multiple languages. She has also written the novel ''Missing'', which was awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction, and ''Close-Up'', which won the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. She is married to Glen Holland, a still life painter. They have a daughter.

Biography

Herman received a B.S. from

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and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, after which she was a James Michener Fellow. She taught from 1988 until 2022 at the

, where she was a founder of 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 and many grants from the Ohio Arts Council and Greater Columbus Arts Council in addition to her James Michener Fellowship. In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of short fiction, ''A New and Glorious Life''. "Auslander," which appears in the collection was also included in ''American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories'' by Gerald Shapiro and other anthologies. She has published three essay collections, the autobiographical ''The Middle of Everything,'' and two volumes of personal essays, ''Stories We Tell Ourselves'' Review, ''Kirkus Reviews'' Jan. 15th, 2013
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She is also an advice columnist for Slate. Roberta Maierhofer viewed Herman's novel ''Missing'' as a literary gerontology example of the process of redefining one's self in advancing age.

Bibliography

*Herman, Michelle. ''Close-Up''. Columbus: DLJ Press/Columbus State University Press, 2022. *Herman, Michelle. ''Devotion''. San Francisco: Outpost19, 2016. *Herman, Michelle. ''Like A Song''. San Francisco: Outpost19, 2015. *Herman, Michelle. ''The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood.'' Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. *Herman, Michelle. ''Dog: A Short Novel.'' San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Pub, 2005. **Translated by Fenisia Giannini into Italian as ''La mia vita con Phil'' *Herman, Michelle. ''Missing.'' Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990. *Herman, Michelle. ''A New and Glorious Life: Novellas.'' Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998. (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. *Herman, Michelle. Weekly advice column,https://slate.com/author/michelle-herman Slate.

References

External links

* http://www.michelleherman.com * https://web.archive.org/web/20131118060038/http://english.osu.edu/people/herman-0 * https://archive.today/20131119042520/http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/herman.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Herman, Michelle 1955 births Living people Writers from Brooklyn American women academics Ohio State University faculty American women writers Brooklyn College alumni 21st-century American women Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Advice columnists