Lorrie Moore
Autor(a) de A Gate at the Stairs
About the Author
Lorrie Moore was born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13, 1957 in Glen Falls, New York. She was nicknamed Lorrie by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University and won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest. After graduation, she moved to Manhattan and worked as a paralegal for two years. In 1980 mostrar mais she enrolled in Cornell University's M.F.A. program. After graduation from Cornell she was encouraged by a teacher to contact an agent who sold her collection, Self-Help, which was composed of stories from her master's thesis. Lorrie Moore writes about failing relationships and terminal illness. She is the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches creative writing. She has also taught at Cornell University. She has written a children's book entitled The Forgotten Helper. She won the 1998 O. Henry Award for her short story People Like That They Are the Only People Here. In 1999 she was given the Irish Times International Fiction Prize for Birds of America. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006 and in 2010 her novel A Gate at the stairs was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Lorrie Moore
Inclusion: strategies for working with young children : a resource guide for teachers, childcare providers, and parents (1997) 5 cópias
Community Life 2 cópias
You're Ugly, Too 2 cópias
“Agnes of Kiowa” 1 exemplar(es)
Escape of the Invasion of the Love-Killers 1 exemplar(es)
“How to be a Writer” 1 exemplar(es)
Dance in America 1 exemplar(es)
'How he Wrote his Songs' in NYRB 56/5, 26 March 2009 [review of Tracy Daugherty's ' Hiding Man: a biography of Donald… 1 exemplar(es)
People Like That Are the Only People Here 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuinte — 512 cópias
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 380 cópias
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuinte — 346 cópias
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introdução — 221 cópias
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Contribuinte — 67 cópias
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contribuinte — 64 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Moore, Marie Lorena
- Data de nascimento
- 1957-01-13
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Glen Falls, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Educação
- St. Lawrence University
Cornell University (MFA|1982) - Ocupação
- professor (English)
short story writer
novelist - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2006)
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Premiações
- O. Henry Award (1998)
Rea Award for the Short Story (2004)
PEN/Malamud Award (2005)
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2000)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
Membros
Discussions
Lorrie Moore suggestions em Short Stories (Agosto 2023)
Resenhas
Listas
Put a Bird On It (1)
Secret Histories (1)
100 New Classics (1)
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