Rhoda Lerman

Rhoda Lerman’s highly praised and award-winning novels “melded history with contemporaneity, mythology with social criticism, feminism with a Jewish sensibility and snark with seriousness” (Bruce Weber, the New York Times). Dubbed the “female Philip Roth” and compared favorably with Kafka, Singer, Malamud, and Graves, Lerman’s novels include the Pulitzer Prize nominated Call Me Ishtar, The Girl That He Marries, The Book of the Night, God’s Ear, Animal Acts, and Eleanor, her extensively researched historical fiction about First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Lerman died in 2015.