Shirley Faessler

{{Short description|Canadian writer}}

Shirley Faessler (1921–1997) was a Canadian writer.

The daughter of Romanian immigrants, she was born in Toronto and grew up in the Kensington Market area. From 1939 to 1948, Faessler was a feature writer for the London Daily Herald; from 1948 to 1960, she worked as a bookkeeper before turning to writing full-time. She contributed short stories to the Atlantic Monthly, the Tamarack Review and the Saturday Night Review. In 1979, Faessler published the novel Everything in the Window. In 1988, she published a collection of short stories A Basket of Apples and Other Stories. Two of her stories, "A Basket of Apples" and "Lucy & Minnie", were included in the anthology The Best American Short Stories.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zVP_EdPwWIC&pg=PA203 |title=Salute to Romanian Jews in America and Canada, 1850-2010: History, Achievements and Biographies |page=203 |last=Wertsman |first=Vladimir |year=2010 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=978-1453512807}}

Faessler's stories featured Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from the period before World War I.{{cite news |url=http://www.cjnews.com/sites/default/files/files/eCJN/2013/08-08-13-MTL.pdf |title=A look back at Shirley Faessler classic |page=23 |newspaper=Canadian Jewish News |date=August 8, 2013 |last=Gladstone |first=Bill}}