Doris Grumbach

Doris M. Grumbach ("née" Isaac; July 12, 1918 – November 4, 2022) is an American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. In 1979, Grumbach published the novel "Chamber Music", which was critically well received and helped establish her reputation as a novelist. In six years, three more books followed: "The Missing Person" (1981), "The Ladies" (1984), and "The Magician's Girl" (1987).
Grumbach taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and American University in Washington, DC, and was literary editor of "The New Republic" for several years. For two decades, she and her partner, Sybil Pike, managed a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine, until 2009 when they moved to a retirement home in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Grumbach celebrated her 100th birthday in 2018, and died in Kennett Square on November 4, 2022, at the age of 104.