Edith Pearlman (1936–2023)

Edith Pearlman has published more than 250 works of short fiction and short non-fiction in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and online publications. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Collection, New Stories from the South, and The Pushcart Prize Collection: Best of the Small Presses. She was relatively unknown until she won the 2011 PEN/Malamud award for excellence in short fiction and her fourth collection of short stories, “Binocular Vision,” was chosen as a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction. She lives with her husband, a psychiatrist, in Brookline, Massachusetts. The couple have a daughter, a son, a daughter-in-law, and a grandson.