Jean hanff korelitz biography of alberta

PERSONAL: Born May 16, 1961, in New York, NY; daughter of Burton I. (a doctor) and Ann (a therapist in social work) Korelitz; married Paul Muldoon (a writer), August 30, 1987; children: one daughter, one son.

Education:Dartmouth College, B.A. (cum laude), 1983; Clare College, Cambridge, M.A., 1985.

ADDRESSES: Home—Princeton, NJ. Agent—c/o Suzanne Gluek, William Morris Agency, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.

CAREER: Writer, novelist, poet, and educator.

Freelance writer, 1979–. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. (publisher), New York City, editorial assistant, 1987–88; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, instructor in Division of Continuing Education, 1990–. Editorial intern for Seventeen magazine, summer, 1979; summer intern of American Society of Magazine Editors for Glamour magazine, 1982.

AWARDS, HONORS: Named among "top ten college women for 1983" by Glamour magazine; Marguerite Eyer Wilbur Foundation fellow, 19