Pearl Abraham is the author of The Seventh Beggar, a finalist for the 2006 Koret Award in Fiction along with David Grossman's Her Body Knows and Francine Prose's A Changed Man. The Romance Reader, her first novel, a finalist for The Discover New Writer's award, named 'Best Book of 1995' by Library Journal, selected as first title by Contra Costa Times of San Francisco, has also been on bestseller lists in Germany and The Netherlands.