Fern Kupfer is the author of four books including the best-selling Before and After Zachariah, a true story about family life with a severely disabled child. All of her books have been translated, published internationally and reviewed in dozens of major venues including The New York Times, Newsday, People magazine and The Washington Post; three books have been serialized; two have received movie options. Her first novel, Surviving the Seasons, was nominated for the Jewish Book Award. No Regrets (Zwei Freundinnen) was reprinted in a special edition of popular books by German publishers, Roman Fischer in 2000.

Before joining the faculty at Iowa State in 1990, Kupfer did free-lance advertising for Impressions Inc, Long Island, New York. She has published hundreds of articles and columns in newspapers and commercial magazines including *Newsweek, Newsday, Family Circle, Redbook, Women’s Day, Cosmopolitan, Writer’s Digest, The Ladies Home Journal, American Way, The Women’s Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Parents Magazine.*

Kupfer’s personal essays are frequently anthologized in collections including the bestseller Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America and Mirror, Mirror: Women Writers on Fairytales. Her columns have been reprinted in education and first-year composition texts including: The Macmillan Writer; The Reading and Writing Process; Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for Writers; and *Essay: Reading with the Writer’s Eye.*

Office/Office Hours

• office: 313 Ross
• office hours: M/W 1:00 - 2:00 PM, T/R 12:30 - 2:00 PM
• office phone: (515) 294-3210
• email: flkupfer@iastate.edu

Interests

• Fiction/Nonfiction/Magazine Writing

Selected Publications

Books

• Before and After Zachariah (Delacorte, 1982), paperback (Academy Chicago, 1988 and 1998)
• Surviving the Seasons: a novel (Delacorte, 1984), paperback (Delacorte,1986)
• No Regrets: a novel (Viking, 1989) paperback (Signet,Penguin, 1990)
• Love Lies: a novel (Simon and Schuster, 1996) paperback (Zebra books, 1995)