Elisa Albert

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elisa Albert
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 2, 1978(1978-07-02)
Age	46
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Elisa Albert Biography

Elisa Albert is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 2, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Elisa Albert (born July 2 1978) is the writer of the short story collection called How this Night is Different (Free Press 2006) The novel The Book of Dahlia (Free Press the year 2008) in addition to After Birth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015) and an anthology entitled Freud’s blind Spot Writing about Siblings: Writers (Free Press in 2010).

Albert is a winner from the Moment Magazine Emerging Writer Awards that are given to writers who’s work is based on themes that are of interest many thousands of Jewish readers. In 2009 she was an official finalist for the Sami Rohr Award, that recognizes the distinctive importance of writers in conveying Jewish experiences.

Albert has taught creative writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and The College of Saint Rose in Albany. She received a residency at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Netherlands in 2010.

In February 2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published Albert’s second novel, After Birth. Publishers Weekly praised Albert for it, saying she, “applies a blistering tone to modern motherhood in this cri de coeur of a novel…In lesser hands, Ari might be unlikable, but Albert imbues her with searing honesty and dark humor, and the result is a fascinating protagonist for this rich novel.” Via Twitter, Emily Gould declared, “This book takes your essay about ‘likable female characters,’ writes FUCK YOU on it in menstrual blood, then sets it on fire.”

Her debut novel The Book of Dahlia The Book of Dahlia, was first published in 2008 by Free Press and was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Award. Karen Russell praises Albert’s unique skills as a writer she says, “Albert writes about a twenty-nine year old woman dying of brain cancer, structuring the book around the cheesy aphorisms from a self-help guide, and if that set-up doesn’t sound like an obvious source of comedy, you’ve got to watch Albert at work.” The New Yorker said, “Albert writes with the black humor of Lorrie Moore and a pathos that is uniquely her own, all the more blistering for being slyly invoked.” Entertainment Weekly selected the book as one of the 10 top novels of 2008 and wrote, “What begins as a darkly funny novel develops quickly into a genuine tragedy, though it’s unlike any you’ve read before.”

Elisa Albert Net Worth

Elisa Albert is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elisa Albert 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Albert was born into an established Jewish family with two brothers older than her living in Los Angeles. She went to Westlake School for Girls and later Harvard-Westlake School, where she wrote an article for the school’s publication known as “Phat Albert.” She was a student of creative writing and the study of women in Brandeis University. She graduated with an MFA from Columbia University in 2004.

Albert’s first novel”How this night is different The book, for which she was honored with the Moment magazine Young Writer Award, is a collection of short stories published in 2006 by Free Press in 2006. Publishers Weekly said, “these 10 stories by debut writer Albert explore traditional Jewish rituals with youthful, irreverent exuberance as her characters transition into marriage and child-rearing.” The reviewer for Lilith Magazine wrote, “Even if Elisa Albert had not chosen to end her collection with a love letter to Philip Roth, one could read her audacious debut as just that.”

In 2010, Albert edited Freud’s Blind Spot, an anthology of essays by other writers on the subject of sibling relationships. It was published in 2010 by Free Press. Contributing writers included Etgar Keret, Jill Soloway, Steve Almond, Victor LaValle, Peter Orner, Lauren Grodstein, Rebecca Wolff, and Joanna Hershon.

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Elisa Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Elisa Albert celebrates birthday on July 2 of every year.