• Source: Michelle Herman

      • Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and Professor Emerita of English at Ohio State University. Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which WorldCat 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 Brooklyn College 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 Ohio State University, 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, as well as two volumes of personal essays, Stories We Tell Ourselves and Like A Song. A new essay collection is forthcoming from Galileo Press.
      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. ISBN 978-0578905280
      Herman, Michelle. Devotion. San Francisco: Outpost19, 2016. ISBN 978-1944853112
      Herman, Michelle. Like A Song. San Francisco: Outpost19, 2015. ISBN 978-1073557783
      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
      Herman, Michelle. Weekly advice column,https://slate.com/author/michelle-herman Slate.


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      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

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