November 20, 1945

Deborah Eisenberg (November 20, 1945) is an American writer.

Her stories may mention felines, but here I draw attention to a cat incident in a book for which she wrote an introduction--- a reissue of Gregor von Rezzori's Memoirs of an Anti-Semite which first appeared in German in 1979. It concerns the pre-war years in central Europe. And a boy who tries to train his dog to attack cats.

JSTOR reminds us:

"Deborah Eisenberg was recently honored with the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She is only the fourth writer to be honored with both the PEN/Malamud and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her most recent book is The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (2010), which gathers the stories in her four of collections in one volume."

Her partner is Wallace Shawn.