Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and Professor Emerita of English at Ohio State University.
Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which WorldCat shows in 545 libraries[1] and has been translated into multiple languages.
[3] In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of short fiction, A New and Glorious Life.
[4] "Auslander," which appears in the collection was also included in American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories by Gerald Shapiro[5] and other anthologies.
Roberta Maierhofer viewed Herman's novel Missing as a literary gerontology example of the process of redefining one's self in advancing age.