Edith Ann Pearlman (née Grossman; June 26, 1936 – January 1, 2023) was an American short story writer.

Early life and career

Pearlman was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where she grew up in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood, the daughter of Edna (Rosen) and Herman Paul Grossman, an ophthalmologist. Her father was born in Ukraine, and her maternal grandparents emigrated from Poland. She graduated from Radcliffe College. She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen and has served in the Town Meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Preservation, and Ploughshares. Her travel writing – about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo – has been published in The New York Times and elsewhere. In January 2015, her fifth collection of short stories, Honeydew, was chosen as one of Oprah Winfrey's "top 19 books to read right now".

Personal life and death

Pearlman lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband. They had two children. Pearlman died in Brookline on January 1, 2023, at the age of 86.

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