Background
Herman, Michelle was born on March 9, 1955 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Morton and Sheila Marcia (Weiss) Herman.
( When she was three months old, Michelle Herman's daught...)
When she was three months old, Michelle Herman's daughter, Grace, went on a hunger strike. At six, she suffered what can only be described, in the old-fashioned way, as a breakdown. And at the ripe old age of eight, she began a study of the nature of "true romance." Motherhood may come naturally, but it doesn't necessarily come easily—certainly not as easily as it seemed to this mother when she vowed to do a better job than her own mother had. But the real trouble started when Herman decided that “better” wasn't good enough: she would be the perfect mother. A memoir from the front lines of motherhood by a longtime writer of fiction, The Middle of Everything weaves a daughter's memories of her Brooklyn childhood in the 1950s and 1960s, and the shadow cast on it by her own young mother's paralyzing depression, with a middle-aged woman's account of trying to break her mother's mold by meeting her own child's every need. A story of love of all kinds, of work and friendship (especially best-friendship, its rewards and perils both), of the charms of other people's families, of the miseries and pleasures of aging, and of the twists of the ties that bind each generation to the next, Michelle Herman's book is an energetic, exhaustive, lacerating, unflinching, and often hilarious inside look at the very nature of motherhood.
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Herman, Michelle was born on March 9, 1955 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Morton and Sheila Marcia (Weiss) Herman.
Bachelor of Science, Brooklyn College, 1976. Master of Fine Arts in English, University Iowa, 1986.
Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which WorldCat shows in 545 libraries and has been translated into Italian. They have a daughter. Herman received a Bachelor of Surgery from Brooklyn College and an Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers" Workshop, after which she was a James Michener Fellow.
She has taught since 1988 at the Ohio State University, where she directs both the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and an interdisciplinary graduate program in the arts
She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in addition to her James Michener Fellowship. In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of short fiction, A New and Glorious Life.
"Auslander" which appears in the collection was also included in American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories by Gerald Shapiro She has published two essay collections, the autobiographical The Middle of Everything, as well as the 2013 volume of personal essays, Stories We Tell Ourselves. Her essay Dream Life, also appeared separately as a Kindle single.
She serves as an Advisory Editor for The Journal" with Kathy Fagan Roberta Maierhofer viewed Herman"s novel Missing as a literary gerontology example of the process of redefining one"s self in advancing age.
Missing. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990. A New and Glorious Life: Novellas.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998.
(contains: "A New and Glorious Life", "Auslander", and "Hope Among Men") Stories We Tell Ourselves (contains "Dream Life" and "Seeing Things") University of Ohio Press, 2013.
( When she was three months old, Michelle Herman's daught...)
(A collection of three novellas by Michelle Herman.)