 His second collection, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank", won the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Nathan Englander was born in West Hempstead on Long Island, New York, and grew up there as part of the Orthodox Jewish community.He attended the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County for high school and graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.