Anna Solomon
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Anna Solomon is an American novelist.[1]
Prior to writing her first novel, she was a journalist for National Public Radio.[2] She then received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.[3] Her first book, the 2011 novel The Little Bride, is about the life of an orphaned, Jewish girl from the Russian Pale of settlement who goes to a South Dakota farm as a mail order bride.[4]
Her second novel is Leaving Lucy Pear,[5] a story about a baby that has been abandoned in a pear orchard.[6][7][8][9][10]
She is the two time recipient of the Pushcart Prize[2] and the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor's Prize.[3]
Solomon was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn, New York along with her two kids.[11]
