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Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University.[4]

Deborah Eisenberg

(1945-11-20) November 20, 1945
Winnetka, Illinois,[1] U.S.

  • Writer
  • professor

Marlboro College; The New School[2]

Wallace Shawn[3]

Early life[edit]

Eisenberg was born in Winnetka, Illinois. Her family is Jewish.[2] She grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York City in the late 1960s.

Personal life[edit]

Eisenberg lives in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.[23]


Her longtime companion is actor-writer Wallace Shawn.[3] She was frequently referred to as "Debbie" in the film My Dinner With Andre, in which she also appears as a dining patron in the restaurant near the beginning.

Transactions in a Foreign Currency. Knopf. February 12, 1986.  978-0-394-54598-1.

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. Faber. 1992. ISBN 978-0-571-16439-4.

Under the 82nd Airborne

All Around Atlantis. Simon & Schuster. 1998.  978-0-671-02462-8.

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The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg. Noonday Press. 1997.  978-0-374-52492-0.

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Twilight of the Superheroes. Picador. 2006.  978-0-330-44460-6.

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The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg. Picador. 2010.  978-0-312-42989-8.

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Your Duck Is My Duck. Ecco. 2018.  978-0-062-68877-4.

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at IMDb

Deborah Eisenberg

from The New York Review of Books

Deborah Eisenberg archive

Catherine Steindler (Spring 2013). . The Paris Review. Spring 2013 (204).

"Deborah Eisenberg, The Art of Fiction No. 218"

KCRW Bookworm Interview

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