Elisa Albert





Elisa Albert

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born
Los Angeles, California, The United States
gender
female

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influences
Philip Roth, Saul Bellow


About this author

Elisa Albert (b.1978) is the author of the short story collection How This Night is Different and the novel The Book of Dahlia. Albert is a founding editor of Jewcy.com and an adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

She lives with writer Edward Schwarzschild and their son in Brooklyn and Albany. She is editing Freud's Blind Spot an anthology about siblings to be published in 2010.


Average rating: 3.31 · 889 ratings · 219 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
The Book of Dahlia
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 755 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
How This Night Is Different...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
Freud's Blind Spot: 23 Orig...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions

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“It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.”
Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia

“She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.”
Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia

“Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.”
Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia



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