Gerald Shapiro

Gerald David Shapiro (August 23, 1950 – October 15, 2011) was an American writer who had published three prize-winning books and was Cather Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was also a reader for Prairie Schooner. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, the writer Judith Slater.

Education He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kansas and M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Academic positions University of Nebraska–Lincoln Harris Center for Judaic Studies

Awards Honor Award in Fiction from The Nebraska Center for the Book and the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Also won a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships program.

Works His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Southern Review.

Books published

(reprint University of Nebraska Press, 2004, )

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