Gabriel Brownstein (born 13 April 1966 in New York City) is an American writer, best known for his novel The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W (2002) which won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 2003, and his novel The Man From Beyond (2005), and The Open-Heart Club (2018).
He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University; he is also an assistant professor in English at St John’s University.
Books in order of publication:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W – 2002
The Man from Beyond – 2005
The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery – 2019
The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud’s Talking Cure – 2024
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