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Pamela Erens

Pamela Erens
Pamela Erens is the author of three novels for adults, The Virgins, Eleven Hours, and The Understory; the middle grade novel Matasha; and Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life, a meditation on the classic work by George Eliot. She has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books.


Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the Moral Value of Fiction
April 26, 2022  By Pamela Erens
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Making the Tricky Switch From Writing Adult Literature to Children’s

Pamela Erens on Writing a Kid’s Book for Her Past Self
June 4, 2021  By Pamela Erens
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