Ann Harleman is an American novelist, scholar, and professor.
Early life and education Harleman was born in Ohio. When she was four years old, her family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where her father worked for Bethlehem Steel. As a child, she wrote mystery stories in the style of the Nancy Drew novels.
Aiming for a career in academia, she earned the B.A. degree at Rutgers University. In 1972, she became the first woman to earn the doctorate in linguistics at Princeton.
In 1988 she earned a M.F.A. in creative writing at Brown University
Career Academia After earning her PhD, Harleman taught linguistics at the University of Washington. In 1976, she took part in a six-month exchange program in Russia.
After moving to Rhode Island in 1983, she became a visiting scholar at Brown's American Civilization department and later a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Writing She began to write short stories, submitting some annually for the Iowa Short Fiction contest. In 1994, her collection of short stories, Happiness, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award.
Honors and awards Harleman has received numerous awards, including the Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the Berlin Prize in Literature, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and the O. Henry Award.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976 Raymond Carver Prize, 1986 Chris O'Malley Fiction Prize, 1987 Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award, 1987 NEH Fellow, Institute for Literary Translation, 1988 Rockefeller Foundation Artist’s Fellow, 1989 Judith Siegel Pearson Award, 1991 PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, 1991 Iowa Short Fiction Award, 1993 Berlin Prize in Literature, 2000 Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Prize, 2002 O. Henry Award, 2003 Goodheart Prize for Fiction, 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, 2004
Personal life Harleman married folklore scholar Bruce Rosenberg in 1981. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990 and died in 2010.
Works Harleman is the author of the story collections Thoreau’s Laundry and Happiness, and the novels The Year She Disappeared and Bitter Lake.
The Cost of Anything, 1988 (thesis submitted at Brown University) Mute Phone Calls, by Ruth Zernova (translated from Russian), 1991 Happiness: Stories, 1994 (reprinted 2008)"Happiness". Publishers Weekly"HAPPINESS by Ann Harleman". Kirkus. Bitter Lake: A Novel, 1996"Bitter Lake". Kirkus Review. Thoreau’s Laundry: Stories, 2007 The Year She Disappeared: A Novel, 2008"The Year She Disappeared". Publishers Weekly.
Non-fiction Graphic Representation of Models in Linguistic Theory, 1976 (as Ann Harleman Stewart) Ian Fleming: A Critical Biography, 1989 (co-authored with Bruce A. Rosenberg)
Articles "Kenning and Riddle in Old English." Papers on Language and Literature, vol. 15, issue 2 (spring 1979): 115–136 "The Solution to Old English Riddle 4." Studia Philologica, vol. 78 (1981) "The Role of Narrative Structure in the Transmission of Ideas", in Textual Dynamics of the Professions, 1991
References
External links Official website Iowa Short Fiction Award citation, with link to full text of "Happiness" Full text of "Textual Dynamics of the Professions" (PDF)