American author Edith Pearlman’s fifth volume of short stories, Honeydew (2014), collects 20 pieces of literary domestic fiction. According to The New York Times, "The stories in Honeydew excel at capturing the complex and surprising turns in seemingly ordinary lives."
Edith Ann Pearlman (née Grossman; June 26, 1936 – January 1, 2023) was an American short story writer.
Pearlman was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where she grew up in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood, the daughter of Edna (Rosen) and Herman Paul Grossman, an ophthalmologist. Her father was born in Ukraine, and her maternal grandparents emigrated from Poland. She graduated from Radcliffe College. She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts.
Her non-fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation, and Ploughshares. Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo – has been published in The New York Times and elsewhere.
In January 2015, her fifth collection of short stories, Honeydew, was chosen as one of Oprah Winfrey's 'top 19 books to read right now'.
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