įollowing a change in publisher and accompanying marketing strategy (with subsequent works promoted not as women's fiction but instead as literary fiction, including a blurb from Jonathan Franzen on her third book), Attenberg experienced a literary breakthrough in 2012 with her third novel The Middlesteins, which became a New York Times bestseller and was listed among the ten best-selling books on Amazon in 2012. Two novels followed: The Kept Man ( Riverhead, 2008) and The Melting Season (2010). In 2006, Attenberg published a collection of short stories with Random/Shaye Areheart under the title Instant Love. Attenberg has also worked at WORD bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a job she took after giving several readings at the store. Career Īttenberg worked at HBO (2000 to 2003) before deciding to devote herself to fiction writing, initially supported by temp jobs. The daughter of a travelling salesman, she grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. She is the author of a short story collection, six novels, including the best-seller The Middlesteins (2012), and a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You (2022).Īttenberg was born in 1971 in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Jami Attenberg (born 1971) is an American fiction writer and essayist.
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