University of Richmond Writers Series: Deborah Eisenberg November 4, 2010

Recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship, Deborah Eisenberg was recently recognized by Ben Marcus, writing for The New York Times, as “one of the most important fiction writers now at work.” She has been publishing spare and elegant prose to national acclaim since the 1980s, with many of her stories appearing in The New Yorker. Winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, a Guggenheim Fellowship and three O. Henry Awards, Eisenberg’s latest work is her 1,000-page “Collected Stories,” the culmination of four earlier volumes of fiction. She presently teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.

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