Lorrie Moore
Forfatter af A Gate at the Stairs
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Værker af Lorrie Moore
I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers (1992) — Redaktør — 86 eksemplarer
Inclusion: strategies for working with young children : a resource guide for teachers, childcare providers, and parents (1997) 5 eksemplarer
Community Life 2 eksemplarer
You're Ugly, Too 2 eksemplarer
Creating Balance in Children's Lives : A Natural Approach to Learning and Behavior (2015) 2 eksemplarer
“Agnes of Kiowa” 1 eksemplar
Escape of the Invasion of the Love-Killers 1 eksemplar
“How to be a Writer” 1 eksemplar
Dance in America 1 eksemplar
People Like That Are the Only People Here 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragyder — 504 eksemplarer
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduktion — 377 eksemplarer
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragyder — 345 eksemplarer
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introduktion — 220 eksemplarer
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Bidragyder — 67 eksemplarer
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Moore, Marie Lorena
- Fødselsdato
- 1957-01-13
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Glen Falls, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Uddannelse
- St. Lawrence University
Cornell University (MFA|1982) - Erhverv
- professor (English)
short story writer
novelist - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2006)
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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)
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