Pamela Erens

Erens at the 2016 Texas Book Festival.

Pamela Erens is an American writer who appeared on a list compiled by the Reader's Digest of "23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now".[1] She has written three critically acclaimed novels. Her debut novel, The Understory (2007), was a fiction finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing[2] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,.[3] Erens's second novel, The Virgins (2013), received accolades from many sources including The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.[4] Her newest novel, Eleven Hours, was published in May 2016.[5] It received highly positive reviews from The New York Times,[6] The Wall Street Journal,[7] The Boston Globe,[8] NPR,[9] The Huffington Post,[10] and other publications. Erens has also written essays and critical articles for publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books.[11]

Biography

Pamela Erens was brought up in Chicago. Her mother Patricia lectured on film at Rosary College and her father was an attorney.[12][13] Erens was educated at the Latin School of Chicago, and had a novel published at the age of 14 entitled Fight for Freedom: A Slave Girl's Escape; it was written when she was 10. It concerned the escape to the North of an Arkansas slave girl, accompanied by Harriet Tubman.[12][14] She went on to study at Philips Exeter Academy and Yale University. Erens has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference[15] and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.[16] For many years she was an editor at Glamour magazine.[14] She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.[17][18]

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