Pearl Schiff | |
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| Born | Pearl Cohen May 12, 1916 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | July 28, 2005 (aged 89) Jamaica Plain |
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| Alma mater | Radcliffe College |
| Genre | Popular fiction |
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Pearl Schiff (May 12, 1916 – July 28, 2005) was an American author from Boston, Massachusetts. She is best known for her first novel, Scollay Square, which made The New York Times Best Seller list in 1952. The novel, about an upper-class woman's affair with a sailor in Boston's red-light district, was considered scandalous at the time.