Myla Goldberg

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Myla Goldberg (2007)

Myla Goldberg (born November 19, 1971 in Washington, DC ) is an American author and musician of Jewish origin.

Life

She grew up in Laurel, Maryland . Goldberg attended the Eleanor Roosevelt Hight School in Greenbelt and then Oberlin College in Ohio , where she majored in English literature. She graduated there in 1993. She then lived for a year in Prague , where she wrote her first novel Kirkus and gave English lessons. Kirkus was never published. She had her breakthrough as a bestselling author in 2000 when she wrote her novel Bee Season (in German The Letter Princess) published. That same year she married Jason Little, a comic book artist. They live together in Brooklyn, New York with their two daughters.

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So far, Myla Goldberg has published three novels, four short stories and a few essays. Time's Magpie - A Walk in Prague (2003), a collection of essays on the Czech capital, has also been published as a book. Goldberg's literature is assigned to the epoch of postmodernism . Most of the main characters in Goldberg's stories are female. With the exception of Bee Season , Jewish culture does not play a major role in their stories . Bee Season is also available in French, Spanish, Italian and Greek.

Novels

  • Bee Season . New York: Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, Random House, Inc, 2000.

German translation: The letter princess (by Christiane Buchner and Martina Tichy) Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004. ISBN 9783499238000

  • Wickett's Remedy . New York: Anchor Books, 2005.

German translation: Just a drop of luck (by Anke Caroline Burger) Blessing Verlag, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-89667-315-2

  • The False Friend . New York: Doubleday, 2010.

German translation: Bad friend (by Martina Tichy) Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-463-40612-1

Short stories

  • "Comprehension Test" (1998)
  • "Going for the Orange Julius" (2001)
  • "The Commemorative" (2001)
  • "That'll Be Two Dollars and Fifty Cents Please" (2010)

Essays

  • Time's Magpie - A Walk in Prague (2003) ISBN 978-1400046041
  • "Maryland" in State by State - A Panoramic Portrait of America . Weiland / Wilsey (ed.) Ecco, New York 2008. ISBN 978-0061470912

Children's literature

  • Catching the moon. Brooklyn, New York: Velocipede Books, 2013.

filming

'' Bee Season '' ( The Letter Princess ) was made into a film in 2004. The four main characters were played by Flora Cross (Eliza Naumann), Richard Gere (Sal Naumann), Juliette Binoche (Miriam Naumann) and Max Minghella (Aaron Naumann). The film has a few deviations from the novel.

music

Myla Goldberg sings and plays the banjo and accordion in her band "The Walking Hellos" and writes the lyrics to her music.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Interview: Myla Goldberg." Militant Geek (3). Case 2000.
  2. ^ The Center for Fiction. "Craftwork with Myla Goldberg (1/2)." Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, Jul 28, 2011. Web. 5 Mar. 2014.
  3. ↑ "Music." mylagoldberg.com. June 2014.



1. "Interview: Myla Goldberg." Militant Geek (3). Fall 2000. 2. The Center for Fiction. "Craftwork with Myla Goldberg (1/2)." Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, Jul 28, 2011. Web. 5 Mar. 2014.


personal data
SURNAME Goldberg, Myla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and musician of Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH 19th November 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC