Background
The daughter of Romanian immigrants, she was born in Toronto and grew up in the Kensington Market area.
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Shirley Faessler
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From 1939 to 1948, Faessler was a feature writer for the London Daily Herald. From 1948 to 1960, she worked as a bookkeeper before turning to writing full-time. She contributed short stories to the Atlantic Monthly, the Tamarack Review and the Saturday Night Review.
In 1979, Faessler published the novel Everything in the Window.
In 1988, she published a collection of short stories A Basket of Apples and Other Stories. Two of her stories, "A Basket of Apples" and "Lucy & Minnie", were included in the anthology The Best American Short Stories.
Faessler"s stories featured Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from the period before World War I.
