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Doris Grumbach (born July 12, 1918) is an American novelist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. She taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, and was literary editor of the ''The New Republic'' for several years. Since 1985, she has had a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine, that she operates with her partner, Sybil Pike. ==Life== Grumbach was born in New York City to Leonard William and Helen (Oppenheimer) Isaac. She grew up in Manhattan and attended elementary school. A very bright student, she skipped many grades and entered high school at age eleven. She was not prepared socially for this early advancement and did poorly, developing a stammer and losing her self-confidence. She was encouraged by her teachers to take a year off from high school, and when she returned, she was an indifferent student in the classroom but showed talent in theater and in creative writing. In her senior year, she won a citywide short story contest, which helped secure her admission to Washington Square College of New York University. She majored in philosophy and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, receiving her B.A. degree in 1939. She earned her M.A. degree in medieval literature in 1940 from Cornell University. At Cornell, she met her future husband, Leonard Grumbach, a doctoral student in neurophysiology. They were married on October 5, 1941, and during 1940-41, Grumbach worked for Loew's, Inc./MGM writing subtitles for films distributed abroad. During 1941-42, she was employed as a proofreader for ''Mademoiselle'' magazine and then for the journal ''Architectural Forum'' in 1942-43, eventually rising to the position of associate editor. When her husband was drafted during World War II, Grumbach joined the Navy in 1943 as an officer in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). She served in the Navy from 1943-45. After the war, Grumbach moved with her husband around the country as he pursued a career in physiology. During this period, the Grumbachs had four daughters: Barbara, Jane, Elizabeth, and Kathryn. Before the birth of their fourth daughter, the Grumbachs settled in Albany, New York, where Leonard Grumbach taught at Albany Medical College and Doris Grumbach began a career in teaching. From 1957-60, she taught junior and senior English at the Albany Academy for Girls. In 1960, she became a professor of English at the College of Saint Rose and taught there until 1971. During her time at the College of Saint Rose, Grumbach also began to focus on her writing career and published her first two novels, ''The Spoil of the Flowers'' (1962), and ''The Short Throat, The Tender Mouth'' (1964). In 1971, after raising their children, Grumbach left her husband. She spent a year in Saratoga Springs, New York helping to set up the external degree program at Empire State College. In 1972, she divorced her husband and began a relationship with Sybil Pike, who became and remains her life partner. Also in 1972, Grumbach accepted a position at ''The New Republic'' magazine as literary editor. Later she and Pike moved to Washington, D.C., where Grumbach worked for a magazine for two years. When it was sold, she lost her job. She remained in Washington and in 1975 accepted a position as professor of American literature at American University. During this time, she also wrote a nonfiction column for ''The New York Times Book Review''. Her writing career continued, and in 1976 she published a literary biography of novelist Mary McCarthy titled ''The Company She Kept''. The biography was noteworthy and controversial for its use of correspondence and other documents which McCarthy had shared with Grumbach, her long-time friend, but had never intended to be made public, let alone published. In 1979, Grumbach published the novel, ''Chamber Music'', which was critically well received and helped establish her reputation as a novelist. In six years, three more books followed: ''The Missing Person'' (1981), ''The Ladies'' (1984), and ''The Magician's Girl'' (1987). During this period, Grumbach also taught creative writing at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa and at Johns Hopkins University, where she worked with such writers of note as John Irwin, John Barth, Edward Albee, and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Grumbach also was a book reviewer and commentator for the “Morning Edition” of National Public Radio and the televised ''MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour''. In 1985, Grumbach resigned her professorship at American University but remained in Washington, D.C. for five more years. She and Pike opened a bookstore for rare and used books, named Wayward Books, located near Eastern Market on Capitol Hill. In 1990 Grumbach and Pike moved to Sargentville, Maine, and opened their bookstore there. Grumbach continues to write and publish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doris Grumbach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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