Pamela Erens

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 two critically acclaimed novels, The Understory (2007), which was a fiction finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing[2] and the Los Angeles Time Book Prize,[3] and The Virgins, which received accolades from many sources including The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.[4] Her next novel, Eleven Hours, is due for publication in May 2016.[5] 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.[6]

Biography

Pamela Erens was brought up in Chicago. Her mother Patricia lectured on film at Rosary College and her father was an attorney.[7][8] 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.[7][9] She went on to study at Philips Exeter Academy and Yale University. Erens has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference[10] and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.[11] For many years she was an editor at Glamour magazine.[9] She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.[12]

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