Anna Solomon

{{short description|American novelist}}

Anna Solomon is an American novelist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/interview-anna-solomon|title=Interview: Anna Solomon|first=Sophie|last=Siegel|date=2016-09-22|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2019-11-28}}

Prior to writing her first novel, she was a journalist for National Public Radio.{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/228113/anna-solomon|title=Anna Solomon {{!}} Penguin Random House|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-28}} She then received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.{{Cite web|url=https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/truth-before-accuracy-an-interview-with-anna-solomon/|title=Truth Before Accuracy: An Interview with Anna Solomon|last=Schaff|first=Sara|website=Fiction Writers Review|access-date=2019-11-28}} Her first book, the 2011 novel The Little Bride, is about the life of an orphaned, Jewish girl from the Russian Pale of settlement who goes to a South Dakota farm as a mail order bride.{{cite news|last1=Lambert|first1=Josh|title=Bride Shipped from Shtetl to South Dakota|url=http://forward.com/culture/143166/bride-shipped-from-shtetl-to-south-dakota/|accessdate=7 August 2016|publisher=The Forward|date=29 September 2011}}

Her second novel is Leaving Lucy Pear,{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/08/11/leaving-lucy-pear|title=Novel 'Leaving Lucy Pear' An Intricate Tale Of Secrets, Class And Motherhood|website=www.wbur.org|language=en|access-date=2019-11-28}} a story about a baby that has been abandoned in a pear orchard.{{cite news |last1=Beidenharm |first1=Isabella |title='Leaving Lucy Pear' by Anna Solomon: EW review |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/08/05/leaving-lucy-pear-anna-solomon-ew-review/ |accessdate=5 April 2019 |publisher=Entertainment Weekly |date=5 August 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Leavitt |first1=Caroline |title=Tale of an abandoned baby in Prohibition era New England |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/07/28/tale-abandoned-baby-prohibition-era-new-england/hIyrIZ2lgrDNcKAxkSqrMO/story.html |accessdate=5 April 2019 |publisher=Boston Globe |date=29 July 2016}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/books/review/leaving-lucy-pear-anna-solomon.html?_r=0|title = A Novel's Abandoned Baby Links the Lives of Two Women|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 5 August 2016|last1 = Shipstead|first1 = Maggie}}{{cite news |title=In 'Leaving Lucy Pear,' 2 Women Are Forever Linked By A Baby Girl |url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/06/27/leaving-lucy-pear-anna-solomon |accessdate=5 April 2019 |publisher=WBUR |date=27 June 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Lemburger |first1=Michael |title=Poverty, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Class in Anna Solomon's "Leaving Lucy Pear" |url=https://www.lilith.org/articles/poverty-ethnicity-sexuality-and-class-in-anna-solomons-leaving-lucy-pear/ |accessdate=5 April 2019 |publisher=Lilith |date=Summer 2016}}

She is the two time recipient of the Pushcart Prize and the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor's Prize.

Solomon was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn, New York along with her two kids.{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/|title=Anna Solomon {{!}} Authors {{!}} Macmillan|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-28}}