Background
Brenda Webster was born in New York City in 1936, the daughter of abstract expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher and the prominent entertainment lawyer Wolf Schwabacher.
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Brenda Webster
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Webster was educated at Swarthmore College, Barnard College, and Columbia University, and completed doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
She is the author of five novels, including The Beheading Game (2006) and Vienna Triangle (2009), which appeared on bestseller lists in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times. Webster is the current president of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association West. Webster"s memoir The Last Good Freudian recounts a privileged childhood that was deeply affected by her family"s devotion to Freudian ideology.
Webster herself entered psychoanalysis at age 14, but eventually rebelled against what she saw as the patriarchy of orthodox Freudianism.
Her husband is Ira M., Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of A History of Islamic Societies.
Achievements
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Brenda Webster has been nominated for two Northern California Book (2007). Fiction: The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster. Translation: Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck, translated by Brenda Webster. Her short story Tattoo Bird received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the Higher Education Francis Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. lieutenant was also twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Awards
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Pushcart Prize; Honorable Mention Brenda Webster has been nominated for two Northern California Book (2007). Fiction: The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster. Translation: Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck, translated by Brenda Webster. Her short story Tattoo Bird received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the H.E. Francis Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. It was also twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.Pushcart Prize; Honorable Mention Brenda Webster has been nominated for two Northern California Book (2007). Fiction: The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster. Translation: Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck, translated by Brenda Webster. Her short story Tattoo Bird received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the H.E. Francis Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. It was also twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.