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{{short description|American writer and academic}} |
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'''Sharona Muir''' is an American writer and academic. |
'''Sharona Muir''' ({{nee}} Bentov) is an American writer and academic. |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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She is the daughter of the late Israeli-American inventor and author, [[Itzhak Bentov]] who died as a passenger on [[American Airlines Flight 191]] in 1979. |
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Muir is the daughter of the late Israeli-American inventor and author, [[Itzhak Bentov]],<ref>[https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-book-of-telling-tracing-the-secret-of-my-fathers-lives Jewish Book Council website, ''The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secret of My Father’s Lives by Sharona Muir'', Book Review by Maron L. Waxman dated June 25, 2012]</ref> who died as a passenger on [[American Airlines Flight 191]] in 1979. |
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She graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1978, received an M.A. in Creative Writing and English from [[Boston University]] in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from [[Stanford University]] in 1991.<ref>[https://paw.princeton.edu/article/sharona-muir-78s-new-book-launches-readers-mythical-new-world Princeton Alumni Weekly website, ''Sharona Muir ’78’s New Book Launches Readers into a Mythical New World'', article by Carlett Spike, dated November 2022]</ref> |
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==Work== |
==Work== |
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She taught at [[Stanford |
She taught at [[Stanford University]], and is currently a professor of creative writing at [[Bowling Green State University]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/creative-writing/muir.html |title=Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University - Sharona Muir |access-date=2009-08-07 |archive-date=2008-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517022623/http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/creative-writing/muir.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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Muir's |
Muir's debut novel, ''Invisible Beasts'', was published by Bellevue Literary Press in 2014. A [[bestiary]] in novel form, featuring imaginary animals based on scientific facts, ''Invisible Beasts'' was named a Title to Pick Up Now in ''[[O, The Oprah Magazine]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oprah.com/book/Invisible-Beasts?editors_pick_id=52164|title = Invisible Beasts}}</ref> as well as a ''Publishers Weekly'' Book of the Week<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/63250-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-july-14-2014.html|title = PW Picks: Books of the Week|date= July 14, 2014}}</ref> and a Top Indie Fiction Selection by ''Library Journal''.<ref>Top Indie Fiction: 30 Key Titles Beyond the Best-Sellers List for Spring/Summer 2014 by |
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Barbara Hoffert on June 3, 2014.</ref> |
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Muir's most recent novel, "Animal Truth and Other Stories", won the Publishing Lab prize for innovative fiction from the [[University of New Orleans]] Press, and was published by UNO Press in 2022.<ref>[https://www.uno.edu/unopress/lab University of New Orleans website, ''The Publishing Lab at the University of New Orleans'']</ref> |
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⚫ | Muir's memoir, ''The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives'', published by [[Random House|Random House/Schocken Books]] in 2005, was positively reviewed in ''The Times Literary Supplement'', by Kapka Kassabova, March 10, 2006; and in ''The Jerusalem Post'', by Barbara Hollander, December 9, 2005. |
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⚫ | Muir's memoir, ''The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives'', published by [[Random House|Random House/Schocken Books]] in 2005, was positively reviewed in ''The Times Literary Supplement'', by Kapka Kassabova, March 10, 2006; and in ''The Jerusalem Post'', by Barbara Hollander, December 9, 2005. The memoir received the 2007 Nancy Dasher Award for the best book in the creative writing category, from the College English Association of Ohio. The memoir deals with Muir's search for the past of her scientist father, Itzhak Bentov. A paperback edition was subsequently published by the [[University of Nebraska]] Press.<ref>[https://www.waterstones.com/book/book-of-telling/sharona-ben-tov-muir/9780803216488 Waterstones website, ''Book of Telling'']</ref> |
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Muir's work has appeared in ''The New York Times",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/the-crazy-puppy-and-the-flying-boy/?_r=0|title = The Crazy Puppy and the Flying Boy|date = 9 November 2014}}</ref> "Granta",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Menu-Extinction|title = Menu: Extinction|date = 12 December 2011}}</ref> Stand, The Kenyon Review, The Jerusalem Report, Harvard Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review,'' ''Ploughshares'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=7421|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}}</ref> ''The Paris Review'', ''The Yale Review'', and many other journals. |
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Her tales, "Menu:Extinction |
Muir's work has appeared in ''The New York Times'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/the-crazy-puppy-and-the-flying-boy/?_r=0|title = The Crazy Puppy and the Flying Boy|date = November 9, 2014}}</ref> ''Granta'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Menu-Extinction|title = Menu: Extinction|date=December 12, 2011}}</ref> ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Jerusalem Report'', ''Harvard Magazine'', ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''Ploughshares'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=7421|title = Author profile|website=Pshares.org}}</ref> ''The Paris Review'', ''The Yale Review'', and many other journals. Her tales, "Menu:Extinction", "The Golden Egg: An Evolutionary Fable", "Think Monkey", and "Feral Parfumier Bees", may be seen in the online editions of, respectively, ''Granta'', ''The Kenyon Review'' (KROnline), ''Michigan Quarterly Review'', and ''Ancora Imparo''.{{cn|date=April 2024}} |
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==Selected awards== |
==Selected awards== |
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* 2022 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award, fiction |
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* 2018 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award, fiction |
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* 2002 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award, nonfiction |
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* 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship |
* 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship |
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* 1998 The Hodder Fellowship: Fellows<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/society_of_fellows/fellows/|title = Fellowships}}</ref> |
* 1998 The Hodder Fellowship: Fellows<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/society_of_fellows/fellows/|title = Fellowships}}</ref> |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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===Poetry=== |
===Poetry=== |
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* ''Heredity and Other Inventions''<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36524007-heredity-and-other-inventions GoodReads website, ''Heredity and Other Inventions'']</ref> C&R Press, 2017 |
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* {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-ben-tov.html | title=The Angel of Memory | journal=AGNI| year=2002 }} |
* {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-ben-tov.html | title=The Angel of Memory | journal=AGNI| year=2002 }} |
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* {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2003/muir-market.html | title=The Most Unsafe Market in Jerusalem | journal=AGNI| year=2002 }} |
* {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2003/muir-market.html | title=The Most Unsafe Market in Jerusalem | journal=AGNI| year=2002 }} |
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===Fiction=== |
===Fiction=== |
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* {{cite book| title=Animal Truth| year=2022 | publisher=University of New Orleans Press |isbn=978-1-60801-238-1}} |
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* {{cite book| title=Invisible Beasts| year=2014 | publisher=Bellevue Literary Press |isbn=978-1-934137-80-2}} |
* {{cite book| title=Invisible Beasts| year=2014 | publisher=Bellevue Literary Press |isbn=978-1-934137-80-2}} |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=8&podcast=279 |
* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=8&podcast=279 Radio Interview with Muir], PublishersWeekly.com. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/the-crazy-puppy-and-the-flying-boy/?_r=0 |
* [http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/the-crazy-puppy-and-the-flying-boy/?_r=0 "The Crazy Puppy and The Flying Boy"], ''The New York Times''. November 9, 2014. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Menu-Extinction |
* [http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Menu-Extinction "Menu:Extinction"], Granta.com. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqr/act2080.0049.212?rgn=main;view=fulltext |
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqr/act2080.0049.212?rgn=main;view=fulltext "Think Monkey"], ''Michigan Quarterly Review''. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqr/act2080.0049.210?rgn=main;view=fulltext |
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqr/act2080.0049.210?rgn=main;view=fulltext "The Couch Conch"], ''Michigan Quarterly Review''. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://www.oprah.com/book/Invisible-Beasts?editors_pick_id=52164 |
* [http://www.oprah.com/book/Invisible-Beasts?editors_pick_id=52164 Review of ''Invisible Beasts''], oprah.com. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/63205-a-graphic-review-of-invisible-beasts.html |
* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/63205-a-graphic-review-of-invisible-beasts.html A Graphic Review of 'Invisible Beasts'], Publishersweekly.com. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://io9.com/invisible-beasts-reveals-a-secret-world-intimately-con-1592818729 |
* [http://io9.com/invisible-beasts-reveals-a-secret-world-intimately-con-1592818729 Review of ''Invisible Beasts''], io9.com. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall14/reviews/ |
* [http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall14/reviews/ 2014 review of ''Invisible Beasts''], bu.edu. Accessed April 11, 2024. |
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* [http://www.ancoraimparo.org "Feral Parfumier Bees"] |
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* [http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=muir.php "Animal Wisdom in the Age of Extinction: E.O. Wilson's 'Anthill'"]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} |
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* [http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=muir-s.php "The Golden Egg: An Evolutionary Fable"]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} |
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Latest revision as of 18:48, 17 June 2024
Sharona Muir (née Bentov) is an American writer and academic.
Early life
[edit]Muir is the daughter of the late Israeli-American inventor and author, Itzhak Bentov,[1] who died as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 191 in 1979. She graduated from Princeton University in 1978, received an M.A. in Creative Writing and English from Boston University in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1991.[2]
Work
[edit]She taught at Stanford University, and is currently a professor of creative writing at Bowling Green State University.[3]
Muir's debut novel, Invisible Beasts, was published by Bellevue Literary Press in 2014. A bestiary in novel form, featuring imaginary animals based on scientific facts, Invisible Beasts was named a Title to Pick Up Now in O, The Oprah Magazine,[4] as well as a Publishers Weekly Book of the Week[5] and a Top Indie Fiction Selection by Library Journal.[6]
Muir's most recent novel, "Animal Truth and Other Stories", won the Publishing Lab prize for innovative fiction from the University of New Orleans Press, and was published by UNO Press in 2022.[7]
Muir's memoir, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives, published by Random House/Schocken Books in 2005, was positively reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, by Kapka Kassabova, March 10, 2006; and in The Jerusalem Post, by Barbara Hollander, December 9, 2005. The memoir received the 2007 Nancy Dasher Award for the best book in the creative writing category, from the College English Association of Ohio. The memoir deals with Muir's search for the past of her scientist father, Itzhak Bentov. A paperback edition was subsequently published by the University of Nebraska Press.[8]
Muir's work has appeared in The New York Times,[9] Granta,[10] The Kenyon Review, The Jerusalem Report, Harvard Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares,[11] The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and many other journals. Her tales, "Menu:Extinction", "The Golden Egg: An Evolutionary Fable", "Think Monkey", and "Feral Parfumier Bees", may be seen in the online editions of, respectively, Granta, The Kenyon Review (KROnline), Michigan Quarterly Review, and Ancora Imparo.[citation needed]
Selected awards
[edit]- 2022 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award, fiction
- 2018 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award, fiction
- 2002 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award, nonfiction
- 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1998 The Hodder Fellowship: Fellows[12]
- 1997 and 2002, Ohio Arts Council Fellowships in poetry and nonfiction
- 1996 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship
- 1990 Whiting Foundation Fellowship for doctoral studies
- 1984 Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Heredity and Other Inventions[13] C&R Press, 2017
- "The Angel of Memory". AGNI. 2002.
- "The Most Unsafe Market in Jerusalem". AGNI. 2002.
- During Ceasefire. Harper & Row. 1985. ISBN 978-0-06-015384-7.
Fiction
[edit]- Animal Truth. University of New Orleans Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1-60801-238-1.
- Invisible Beasts. Bellevue Literary Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-934137-80-2.
Memoir
[edit]- The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives. University of Nebraska Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8032-1648-8.
Literature
[edit]- The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction And American Reality. University of Michigan Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-472-10580-9.
References
[edit]- ^ Jewish Book Council website, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secret of My Father’s Lives by Sharona Muir, Book Review by Maron L. Waxman dated June 25, 2012
- ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly website, Sharona Muir ’78’s New Book Launches Readers into a Mythical New World, article by Carlett Spike, dated November 2022
- ^ "Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University - Sharona Muir". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Invisible Beasts".
- ^ "PW Picks: Books of the Week". July 14, 2014.
- ^ Top Indie Fiction: 30 Key Titles Beyond the Best-Sellers List for Spring/Summer 2014 by Barbara Hoffert on June 3, 2014.
- ^ University of New Orleans website, The Publishing Lab at the University of New Orleans
- ^ Waterstones website, Book of Telling
- ^ "The Crazy Puppy and the Flying Boy". November 9, 2014.
- ^ "Menu: Extinction". December 12, 2011.
- ^ "Author profile". Pshares.org.
- ^ "Fellowships".
- ^ GoodReads website, Heredity and Other Inventions
External links
[edit]- Radio Interview with Muir, PublishersWeekly.com. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- "The Crazy Puppy and The Flying Boy", The New York Times. November 9, 2014. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- "Menu:Extinction", Granta.com. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- "Think Monkey", Michigan Quarterly Review. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- "The Couch Conch", Michigan Quarterly Review. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- Review of Invisible Beasts, oprah.com. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- A Graphic Review of 'Invisible Beasts', Publishersweekly.com. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- Review of Invisible Beasts, io9.com. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- 2014 review of Invisible Beasts, bu.edu. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- "Sharona Muir: Interview", unstuckbooks.org via archive.org. Accessed April 11, 2024.
- Living people
- Princeton University alumni
- Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- Stanford University faculty
- Bowling Green State University faculty
- Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
- American women poets
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- American people of Slovak-Jewish descent
- American people of Israeli descent