Joan Silber

Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently Secrets of Happiness (May 2021).  Her novel Improvement won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.  Her book Fools was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Size of the World was a finalist for the LA Times Fiction Prize, and Ideas of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize.  She lives in New York, taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.