Ann Birstein is the author of 10 books, both fiction and non-fiction, which include American Children, Summer Situations, an autobiography, What I Saw at the Fair, and a biography of her father, The Rabbi on Forty-Seventh Street. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Vogue, and many other publications. Her grants and honors include a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has taught and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel. At Barnard College, where she was a professor for many years, she founded and directed Writers on Writing.