Hilma Wolitzer

Robert Conlon

AVAILABLE JANUARY 12, 2012

From the publisher, about
AN AVAILABLE MAN:
In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around.

With wit, warmth, and a keen understanding of the heart, An Available Man explores aspects of loneliness and togetherness, and the difference in the options open to men and women of a certain age. Most of all, the novel celebrates the endurance of love, and its thrilling capacity to bloom anew.

Biography

I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and now my husband--a psychologist--and I divide our time between Manhattan and The Springs, on the eastern end of Long Island. We have two grown daughters. Meg is a novelist and Nancy is a freelance editor and visual artist.

I started writing when I was a child. My first published work, at 9, was a poem about winter in the Junior Inspector’s Club Journal, sponsored by the New York City Department of Sanitation. But I was really a late bloomer, publishing my first short story in my 30’s and my first novel, ENDING, when I was 44. For a while I was billed as The Great Middle-Aged Hope. My 14th book, AN AVAILABLE MAN, a novel about dating and finding love later in life, will be published in January 2012.

I’ve taught in many creative writing programs, including the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Columbia University and N.Y.U. and have received honors and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters.