Awards & Winners

Joan Silber

Date of Birth 14-June-1945
Place of Birth Newark
(New Jersey, Essex County, United States of America, Area codes 862 and 973, Area code 973, Area code 862)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of Household Words, which won a PEN/Hemingway Award, and Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories, which was a finalist for both the 2004 National Book Award and the Story Prize. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been published in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize collections, and has also appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. Silber grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and obtained a M.A. degree from New York University. She taught at NYU and now teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and currently lives in New York City.

Awards by Joan Silber

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joan Silber.

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
The Story Prize Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
National Book Award for Fiction Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories

1981


Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Honored for : Household Words