Kate Bernheimer

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2002
  • Latest Book:
    November 2017
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Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold

    The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore and fairy stories to recount the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely ...

  • The Complete Tales of Merry Gold

    Obsessive, prudish, and cold, Merry Gold lives in denial of her own condition. This seamstress -- the eldest and meanest of the three Gold sisters -- possesses a tarnished past and faces a bleak and lonely future. Guilty about her destructive desires...

  • The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum

    Once there was a girl who lived in a castle. The castle was inside a museum. When children visited, they'd press against the glass globe in which the castle sat, to glimpse the tiny girl. But when they went home, the girl was lonely. Then one day, sh...

  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

    New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate B...

  • Horse, Flower, Bird

    An imaginative, hauntingly poetic collection of contemporary fables that redefine the fairy tale for the modern woman. In Kate Bernheimer’s familiar and spare -- yet wondrous -- world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret b...

  • The Complete Tales Of Lucy Gold

    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a...

  • The Lonely Book

    When a wonderful new book arrives at the library, at first it is loved by all, checked out constantly, and rarely spends a night on the library shelf. But over time it grows old and worn, and the children lose interest in its story. The book is sent ...

  • The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair

    Young fans of the Disney movie Tangled will especially love this hair-raising story. What happens when one little girl refuses to brush her long, beautiful hair? Well, one day a mouse comes to live in a particularly tangled lock. Soon after, more mic...

  • Xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths

    Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me." Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a ...



  • How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales: And Other Stories

    A Time Out New York Best Book of the Year. “[Bernheimer is] one of literature’s foremost champions of the fairy tale.” -- Nylon Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer’s latest collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the...

  • The Emerald Issue

    Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary publication dedicated to publishing new fairy-tale fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It seeks to expand the conversation about fairy tales among practitioners, scholars, and general readers. Contents reflect a d...

  • The Grey Issue

    When we speak of grey as a location, placing a thing into a grey area, the color represents territory where the definite becomes lost. Grey lets us know that the truth is not always clear; even the most well-known paths can turn strange when a low gr...

  • The Mauve Issue

    Mauve is a new word with old roots. The color’s earlier incarnations -- Tyrian purple (given for the shade of Roman emperors’ cloaks) and aniline purple -- were abandoned when, to increase the popularity of Perkin’s dye, its sellers named the c...

  • The White Issue

    The fourth issue of Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue features original fiction and poetry with fairy tale aesthetics. "All great novels are great fairy tales," wrote Vladimir Nabokov many years ago, and Fairy Tale Review continues to believe that a...

  • Fairy Tale Review

    The Translucent Issue is a break from tradition. In some ways, colors are an easier, more obvious entry point into the world of fairy tales. It is not transparent, and thus never explicit on the page -- the Brothers Grimm rarely editorialized -- but ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kate Bernheimer has published 15 books.

Kate Bernheimer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fairy Tale Review, was published in November 2017.

The first book by Kate Bernheimer, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, was published in March 2002.

No. Kate Bernheimer does not write books in series.
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