12 Facts About Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg was born on November 20,1945 and is an American short story writer, actress and teacher.

Deborah Eisenberg is a professor of writing at Columbia University.

Deborah Eisenberg grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York City in the late 1960s.

Deborah Eisenberg taught at the University of Virginia from 1994 until 2011, when she accepted a teaching position at Columbia University's MFA writing program.

Deborah Eisenberg has written five collections of stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, All Around Atlantis, Twilight of the Superheroes, and Your Duck Is My Duck.

Deborah Eisenberg has written a play, Pastorale, which was produced at Second Stage in New York City in 1982.

Deborah Eisenberg has written for such magazines as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review.

Deborah Eisenberg is the credited screenwriter of the 2020 Steven Soderbergh film Let Them All Talk, for which she wrote a 50-page treatment from which the actors largely improvised the dialogue.

Deborah Eisenberg received the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2000, an award granted for significant contribution to the short story form.

Deborah Eisenberg has received a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, both in 1987; and six O Henry Awards, in 1986,1995,1997,2002,2006, and 2013.

In 2007, Deborah Eisenberg was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2009 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Deborah Eisenberg was frequently referred to as "Debbie" in the film My Dinner With Andre, in which she appears as a dining patron in the restaurant near the beginning.