Merrill Joan Gerber

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Merrill Joan Gerber


Born
in The United States
January 01, 1930

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Prize-winning novelist and short story writer who has published seven novels — among them King Of The World, which won the Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award for an "important and unusual book of literary distinction," and The Kingdom of Brooklyn, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for "the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme" — as well as five volumes of short stories, nine young adult novels, and three books of non-fiction.

Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in literary journals such as The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southwest Review, Shenandoah, The Chattahoochee Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
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Average rating: 3.84 · 694 ratings · 152 reviews · 38 distinct works
The Victory Gardens of Broo...

3.82 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Now Molly Knows

3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions
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Botticelli Blue Skies: An A...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Also Known as Sadzia! The B...

3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions
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The Kingdom of Brooklyn

4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1955 — 7 editions
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Glimmering Girls: A Novel o...

3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Anna in the Afterlife: A Novel

3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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Revelation at the Food Bank

4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings2 editions
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The Hysterectomy Waltz

3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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Gut Feelings: A Writer's Tr...

4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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