Deborah Heller was born in New York City. She received her BA in English from Cornell University, studied German literature at the Free University of West Berlin just before the wa...vizualizați mai multeDeborah Heller was born in New York City. She received her BA in English from Cornell University, studied German literature at the Free University of West Berlin just before the wall went up, and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. She taught in the English and Humanities Departments at York University, Toronto, Canada for more than thirty years, during which she spent two sabbatical years in Florence, Italy. She has published book chapters and articles on British, North American and comparative literature, including Wordsworth, George Eliot, Mme de Staël, Dickens, Kafka, Ibsen, Anna Banti, Alice Munro, and Grace Paley. She is the author of Literary Sisterhoods: Imagining Women Artists, Daughters and Mothers in Alice Munro’s Later Stories, and is co-editor of Jewish Presences in English Literature. She lives in Toronto, Canada.vizualizați mai puține