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Name: Marcie Hershman
Title: Lecturer in Creative Writing
Departmental Affiliation: English Department
Degrees: M.A. University of Massachusetts at Boston; B.A. Boston University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Expertise: Writing of Fiction
Journalism (esp. Reviews, Opinion Articles)
Major Awards: 1999-2001: Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence, Brandeis University,
1993: Fellow in Fiction: Bunting Institute, Harvard University,
1992: Boston Globe/LLWinship Book Award: Special Fiction Citation for Tales of the Master Race, (HarperCollins, 1991),
1993: St. Botolph Grant for Artistic Merit,
1992-95: Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell Colony: Writing Residencies
E-mail: marcie.hershman@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Speak to Me: Grief, Love and What Endures (non-fiction/memoir) 2001, Beacon Press; paperback, Beacon Press: 2002.

Safe in America (novel) 1995, Harper Collins; 1996 Harper Perennial

Tales of the Master Race (novel) 1991, Harper Collins; 1992, Harper Perennial. currently in 5th printing

Representative sample of essays:

“The Honan-Allston Library”, ArchitectureBoston, 2004

“The New England Holocaust Memorial”, ArchitectureBoston, 2000

"The World and the Library" (essay) 1996, Poets & Writers; Many reprints

"No Burden to Bear" (essay) 1992, New York Times Magazine; many reprints

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