Joan Silber

Joan Silber, una dintre cele mai prestigioase prozatoare americane contemporane, a crescut in Millburn, New Jersey, si a studiat la Sarah Lawrence College din Yonkers,   New York. Dupa absolvire s-a mutat in New York, obtinind o diploma de licenta la New York University, iar ulterior s-a dedicat scrisului. Primul ei roman, Household Words (1980), a fost recompensat cu Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. A mai publicat romanele In the City (1987), Lucky Us (2001), The Size of the World (2008) si Improvement (Imbunatatire, 2017). La scurt timp dupa aparitie, Imbunatatire s-a bucurat de un remarcabil succes la public si de o receptare critica similara, obtinind National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction in 2017 si, in 2018, PEN/Faulkner Award. Silber a publicat si trei volume de proza scurta: In My Other Life (2000), Ideas of Heaven (2004) si Fools (2013). Ca recunoastere a meritelor sale, in 2018 a primit PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. In 2007, Joan Silber a fost premiata de Academia Americana de Arte si Litere, iar in decursul carierei a beneficiat de burse de creatie acordate de Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts si The New York Foundation for the Arts. A predat cursuri de scriere creativa la New York University, University of Utah si la colegiile Sarah Lawrence si Warren Wilson. In prezent traieste in New York.