Pamela Erens
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female
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The United States
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Literature & Fiction
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John Cheever, Eudora Welty, George Eliot, Jane Bowles, James Salter
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June 2007
about this author
Pamela Erens's novel, The Understory, published in 2007, was the winner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize and a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Pamela's short fiction has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in Chicago Review, Boston Review, The Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Upstreet, Skidrow Penthouse,, Redivider, and the short-story anthology Visiting Hours, edited by Dan Wickett (Press 53).
Pamela is the recipient of two fellowships in fiction from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She has also published poetry, essays, book criticism, and magazine articles on a wide variety of subjects.
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The Understory by Pamela Erens (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 44 ratings — published 2007 |
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Fight for Freedom by Pamela Erens (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1977 2 editions |
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback) by Jill Bolte Taylor |
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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
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"Beautiful, unique, sensuous novel about the decline of the aristocracy in 1860s Sicily. The book is subtle, almost stealthy, and (especially for such a short work) astonishing in the complexity and depth of its human portraiture. Lovely, lovely.
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Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife (Hardcover) by Francine Prose |
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
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Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home (Hardcover) by David Shipley |
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