Deborah Eisenberg
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About
Illinois-born author who is best known for her 2007 work, Twilight of the Superheroes. In 2009, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
Before fame
She worked as an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books. She published her first short story collection, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, in 1986.
Trivia
She taught at Columbia University and the University of Virginia.
Family life
She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She has been in a relationship with actor Wallace Shawn.
Associated with
She admired the work of author C.S. Lewis.
