Young Daisy Learner is a newcomer to the hijinks and sexual machinations of the academy.

A seriously gifted writer with a freshly minted flavor all her own. -Truman Capote

I have read The Sweet Birds of Gorham with really great pleasure. Daisy Lerner is an adorable heroine. -Mark Schorer

A delightfully original, touching, funny, gifted novel. -Francis Steegmuller

What a gift it is to read Ann Birstein. The Sweet Birds of Gorham is so sharp, swift, and funny that one is in danger of forgetting how right an eye Miss Birstein has, and how well-tuned an ear. -Jules Feiffer

Ann Birstein is the author of 10 books, both fiction and non-fiction, which include American Children, Summer Situations, an autobiography, What I Saw at the Fair, and a biography of her father, The Rabbi on Forty-Seventh Street. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Vogue, and many other publications. Her grants and honors include a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. She has taught and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel. At Barnard College, where she was a professor for many years, she founded and directed Writers on Writing.