- Bachelors in English from the University of Florida in 1959.
- Masters in English from Brandeis University.
- Awarded the Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship from Stanford University.
- Awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine for The Kingdom of Brooklyn
For publications and prizes see her website:www.cco.caltech.edu/~mjgerber
Novels:The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn,Glimmering Girls,Anna in Chains,Anna in the Afterlife,King of the World,The Kingdom of Brooklyn,Now Molly KnowsThe Lady With the Moving PartsAn Antique Man
Short Stories:This Is A Voice From Your Past,Chattering Man,This Old Heart of Mine,Honeymoon,Stop Here, My Friend,
Memoirs:Old Mother, Little Cat: A Writer's Reflections on her Kitten, Her Aged Mother, and Life,Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence
Non Fiction:Gut Feelings: A Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions
...and nine young adult novels