Merla Wolk is a senior lecturer at the University of Michigan, where she teaches writing and literature. Her publications include essays on Rosellen Brown, Edith Konecky and Henry James. Wolk is coauthor of Arenas of the Mind: Critical Reading for Writers and she is at work on Offerings: The Voices of Jewish Women Writers, a cultural study of Jewish women writing in English around the world.
In her acclaimed novels, Edith Konecky depicted the world of nouveau riche Jewish American families in the early part of the twentieth century. Based on her own life experiences, her novels explored the realities of women growing up in abusive households and question the motives and actions of the wealthy male characters.
