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Kate Chopin (1850-1904) is an American writer of Irish-Creole descent. Chopin, a mother of six, started writing for a living after her husband passed away, leaving her destitute. She first received public recognition for her novella The Awakening, which was published in 1899. The piece is considered a pinnacle of American Literature for its unique focus on […]
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Amy Hempel was Born in 1951. She grew up in Chicago and Denver before moving at sixteen to California, the inspiration for what would eventually become the extraordinary, unreal setting for her earliest fiction. She spent time in and around San Francisco until, over a two-year span, a series of significant events unfolded: her mother […]
Lorrie Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1957. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her first book, Self-Help (1985), a collection of stories, won her critical acclaim for its humorous parody of the popular self-help books of the time period. The collection was also well regarded for its […]
Miranda July is an American multidisciplinary artist. She is an author, playwright, screenwriter, director, actress, performance artist, musician, and video artist. In 2007, her collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, awarded in Ireland. “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” the film […]
David Quammen is an American author and journalist. He was honored with the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award. Quammen was born in 1948 and raised in the suburbs of Cincinnati, closely adjacent to a hardwood forest, in which he spent […]
Lucia Berlin, an American author, wrote 77 short stories in her lifetime, which she published sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and most of the 1980s. Berlin was born in Alaska in 1936. Her father was a mining engineer and her earliest years were spent in the mining camps and towns of Idaho, Kentucky, and Montana. […]
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She was born in 1977 in New York City to Turkish parents and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she also taught. While in graduate school, Batuman studied the Uzbek language in […]
Maureen F. McHugh is a science fiction and fantasy American writer. She was born in 1959 in a blue collar town in Ohio and lived in New York City, Shijiazhuang, China, and Austin, Texas. McHugh has written four novels and two collections of short fiction. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short […]
James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America’s foremost writers. Baldwin — the grandson of a slave — was born in Harlem in 1924. The oldest of nine children, he grew up in poverty, developing a troubled relationship with his strict, religious stepfather. Following this father, Baldwin was […]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. Her father abandoned the family when she was a child, and she received just four years of formal education. At an early age, she vowed never to marry, hoping instead to devote […]
Brian Leung is an American fiction writer, whose short story collection, World Famous Love Acts, won the 2005 Asian-American Literary Award for fiction and the Mary McCarthy Award for short fiction. He has also written two novels. Leung was born and raised in San Diego County, to a father who has escaped from China in 1949. For many years he […]
Richard Brautigan was an American author of ten novels, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of short stories. He was born on January 30, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington. His father left home before he was born, and his childhood was apparently a troubled one marked by poverty. He did not attend college. At some […]
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