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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American novelist, essayist and short story writer</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Novelist" title="Novelist">novelist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essayist" class="mw-redirect" title="Essayist">essayist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Short_story_writer" class="mw-redirect" title="Short story writer">short story writer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Hunter College; Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">fiction</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>The Romance Reader,</i> <i>Giving Up America,</i> <i>The Seventh Beggar,</i> <i>American Taliban</i>.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">"Hasidic Noir" won the 2006 Shamus Award for Best Short Story about a Private Eye; "The Romance Reader" was named "Best Book of 1995" by Library Journal</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pearlabraham.com/">pearlabraham<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pearl Abraham</b> (born 1960 in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was the third of nine children in a <a href="/wiki/Hasidic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasidic">Hasidic</a> family. Her father was a <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a>. At age five, the family moved to New York City and two years later returned to Israel. Following several moves back and forth between New York and Israel, the family settled in New York when she was 12. She studied first in <a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a>, then in English and then again in Yiddish.<sup id="cite_ref-bombsite.com_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bombsite.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_teaching_career">Education and teaching career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pearl_Abraham&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education and teaching career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She graduated from <a href="/wiki/Hunter_College" title="Hunter College">Hunter College</a> and received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is currently Assistant Professor in the English Department at <a href="/wiki/Western_New_England_University" title="Western New England University">Western New England University</a> where she teaches creative writing and fiction. She previously taught at New York University, <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Lawrence_College" title="Sarah Lawrence College">Sarah Lawrence College</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Houston" title="University of Houston">University of Houston</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Authorship">Authorship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pearl_Abraham&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Authorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abraham is the author of four novels: <i>The Romance Reader</i>, <i>Giving Up America</i>, <i>The Seventh Beggar</i> and her latest novel, <i>American Taliban</i>. </p><p>In each of her novels, Ms. Abraham has explored the themes of emotional evolution, awakening and becoming.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has described her work as seeking to understand "the mystery of creation, call it talent, the muse, or the heightened mystical moments in which inspiration flows."<sup id="cite_ref-bombsite.com_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bombsite.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main characters in the <i>Seventh Beggar</i> are a young student who becomes captivated by and ultimately obsessed with <a href="/wiki/Kabbalistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabbalistic">Kabbalistic</a> thought and his nephew, a student at <a href="/wiki/MIT" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT">MIT</a>, who is steeped in computer science and the creative power of artificial intelligence.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the novel is set in the present, in the background throughout is the 18th century Hasidic master, mystic and storyteller <a href="/wiki/Rabbi_Nachman" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabbi Nachman">Rabbi Nachman</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bratslav" title="Bratslav">Bratslav</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bombsite.com_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bombsite.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Regarding the <i>Seventh Beggar</i>, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> Professor and literary critic wrote: "The Seventh Beggar is an amazingly poignant completion of the most enigmatic of Nachman of Bratslav’s tales. Rabbi Nachman listened for God's voice in the void and was frighteningly honest as to how difficult it was to apprehend redemption. By a kind of miracle of sympathetic imagination, Pearl Abraham has been able to revivify what may be the most spiritually disturbing of all Chasidic tales."<sup id="cite_ref-aeispeakers.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aeispeakers.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In her review of <i>Giving Up America</i> in the <i><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Chronicle" title="San Francisco Chronicle">San Francisco Chronicle</a></i>, Christina Buchmann wrote: "Whether one is falling in love or out of it, the transition is mysterious. <i>Giving Up America</i>, the story of a young couple in New York whose marriage begins changing for the worse, does full justice to that mystery. The book's marriage may end in divorce, but in the meantime Pearl Abraham has given us so many interesting reflections on marriage that the result is invigorating rather than depressing."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Romance Reader tells the story of a young Hasidic woman confronting the challenges of growing up in the face of a stringently imposed orthodoxy. A <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> review described it as "an assured, smoothly written book, narrated in a muted voice that seems to whisper secrets into the reader's ear."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>American Taliban</i>, Abraham's newest novel, tells the story of a young surfer/skater on "an American spiritual journey that begins with <a href="/wiki/Transcendentalism" title="Transcendentalism">Transcendentalism</a> and countercultural impulses, enters into world mysticism, and finds its destination in <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to Abraham's novels, she has been published in <i><a href="/wiki/Moment_(magazine)" title="Moment (magazine)">Moment Magazine</a></i><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and <i>The New York Times</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pearl_Abraham&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She is also the editor of the Dutch anthology <i>Een Sterke Vrouw: Jewish Heroines in Literature</i>. Her stories and essays have appeared in literary quarterlies and anthologies, including: <i>Who We Are</i> (Schocken Books), <i>The Michigan Quarterly</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Forward" title="The Forward">The Forward</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Epoch_(American_magazine)" title="Epoch (American magazine)">Epoch</a></i> (Cornell), and <i>Brooklyn Noir</i> (Akashic Press). <i>The Seventh Beggar</i> was one of three finalists for the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Koret_Jewish_Book_Award" title="Koret Jewish Book Award">Koret Jewish Book Award</a> in Fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-Library_Thing_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Library_Thing-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Romance Reader</i> was a semifinalist for The Discover New Writer's Award, named "Best Book of 1995" by <i><a href="/wiki/Library_Journal" title="Library Journal">Library Journal</a></i>, and selected as first title by <i><a href="/wiki/Contra_Costa_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Contra Costa Times">Contra Costa Times</a></i> of San Francisco.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It was also on bestseller lists in Germany and the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>. Her story "Hasidic Noir" won the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Shamus_Award" title="Shamus Award">Shamus Award</a> for Best Short Story about a Private Eye.<sup id="cite_ref-aeispeakers.com_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aeispeakers.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pearl_Abraham&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-bombsite.com-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bombsite.com_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bombsite.com_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bombsite.com_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bombsite.com/issues/91/articles/2728">"BOMB Magazine — Pearl Abraham by Aryeh Lev Stollman"</a>. <i>bombsite.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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