Far and Away
1992
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Pollock was born in Belfast, [3] and studied languages at Queen's University Belfast. [4] Before her acting career she was a technical translator, working in London. [5] Her first theatrical work was as ASM at the Bush Theatre, London. [4]
Eileen Pollack (born 1956) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She is the former director of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan. Pollack holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University and an M.F.A in creative writing from the University of Iowa.
Eileen Pollack was born and grew up in Liberty, N.Y., the heart of the Jewish Catskills, where her grandparents owned and operated a small hotel; her father was the town dentist and her mother taught third grade.
Eileen Pollock was an American actress known for her roles in Far and Away, Bread, and Angela’s Ashes. Born on May 18, 1947, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, she made significant contributions to film and television before her death on December 19, 2020, in London, England, UK.
Eileen Pollack is a writer whose novel Breaking and Entering, about the deep divisions between blue and red America, was named a 2012 New York Times Editor’s Choice selection.
Discouraged from a promising career in science, Eileen Pollack published her 2015 memoir The Only Woman in the Room to unravel the many instances of sexism, large and small, which push women like her out of STEM fields.
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Eileen Pollack grew up in Liberty, N.Y., the heart of the Jewish Catskills. After graduating from Yale with a BS in physics, she earned an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the novels The Professor of Immortality, The Bible of Dirty Jokes, A Perfect Life, Breaking and Entering (which won the Grub ...
