Tova Mirvis (born 1972) is an American novelist. She is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and holds a masters of fine arts degree in fiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. Mirvis' family has lived in Memphis, Tennessee, since 1874 when her German-born grandmother moved there at age two.[citation needed]

Tova Mirvis
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • essayist
  • memoirist
LanguageEnglish
EducationColumbia College
Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA)[1]
SpouseAaron (pseud., m. 1997; div. 2012)[2][3][4]
William (pseud.?, m. ca. 2016)[5][6][7]
Children3
Website
www.tovamirvis.com

Wendy Shalit essay

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Mirvis was the subject of a 2005 essay by Wendy Shalit entitled "The Observant Reader"[8] in The New York Times Book Review which accused Mirvis, an Orthodox Jew, of writing ostensibly "'insider' fiction (that) actually reveals the authors' estrangement from the traditional Orthodox community." Mirvis defended herself in an essay in The Forward.[9]

Writings

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Tova Mirvis at the East Meadow Public Library, presenting The Book of Separation

Mirvis's published works include:[10]

Books

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Novels
  • The Ladies Auxiliary. W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. ISBN 9780393078343.
  • The Outside World. Knopf/Vintage. 2004. ISBN 9780307429124.
  • Visible City. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. ISBN 978-0-544-04774-7.
Memoir

Shorter works

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Essays and other pieces

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Stories

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References

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  1. ^ "Columbia College Today". College.columbia.edu. 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  2. ^ "Columbia College Today". College.columbia.edu. 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  3. ^ "When the Ground Cracked". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  4. ^ Friedman, Gabe (2014-05-11). "In 'Visible City,' Tova Mirvis adds pain to her palette". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  5. ^ "After a Divorce, Spending Rosh Hashanah in the Great Outdoors". Tabletmag.com. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  6. ^ Levine, Mari (2017-09-18). "Tova Mirvis on the Pain and Necessity of Leave-Taking". JewishBoston. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  7. ^ Tova Mirvis (2017). The Book of Separation. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780544520547.
  8. ^ Shalit, Wendy (2005-01-30). "The Observant Reader". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  9. ^ Judging a Book By Its Head Covering, By Tova Mirvis, Forward.com, Fri. Feb 04, 2005
  10. ^ "News". Tova Mirvis. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  11. ^ "Hanukkah Lights 2013". NPR. 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2017-11-16.

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