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Pamela Erens is an American writer who appeared on a list compiled by the Reader's Digest of "23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now".[1] She has written three critically acclaimed novels for adults, a highly praised novel for middle schoolers,[2][3] and the memoir/critical hybrid Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life.[4] Her debut novel, The Understory (2007), was a fiction finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing[5] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,.[6] Erens's second novel, The Virgins (2013), received accolades from many sources including The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.[7] It was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award.[8] Her third novel, Eleven Hours, was published in May 2016.[9] It was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New Yorker,[10] NPR,[11] and Kirkus.[12] Erens's middle grade novel, Matasha, was published in June 2021.[13] Erens has also written essays and critical articles for publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books.[14]
Pamela Erens was brought up in Chicago. Her mother Patricia lectured on film at Rosary College and her father was an attorney.[15][16] Erens was educated at the Latin School of Chicago, and had a novel published at the age of 14 entitled Fight for Freedom: A Slave Girl's Escape; it was written when she was 10. It concerned the escape to the North of an Arkansas slave girl, accompanied by Harriet Tubman.[15][17] She went on to study at Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. Erens has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference[18] and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.[19] For many years she was an editor at Glamour magazine.[17] She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.[20][21]
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