Shirley Faessler

Shirley Faessler (1921–1997^[1]) was a Canadian writer.^[2]

The daughter of Romanian immigrants, she was born in Toronto and grew up in the Kensington Market area. From 1939 to 1948, Faessler was a feature writer for the London Daily Herald; from 1948 to 1960, she worked as a bookkeeper before turning to writing full-time. She contributed short stories to the Atlantic Monthly, the Tamarack Review and the Saturday Night Review. In 1979, Faessler published the novel Everything in the Window. In 1988, she published a collection of short stories A Basket of Apples and Other Stories. Two of her stories, "A Basket of Apples" and "Lucy & Minnie", were included in the anthology The Best American Short Stories.^[2]

Faessler's stories featured Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from the period before World War I.^[1]

References

1. Gladstone, Bill (August 8, 2013). "A look back at Shirley Faessler classic" (PDF). Canadian Jewish News. p. 23.
2. Wertsman, Vladimir (2010). Salute to Romanian Jews in America and Canada, 1850-2010: History, Achievements and Biographies. Xlibris Corporation. p. 203. ISBN 978-1453512807.