Lorrie Moore
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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 más 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 copias
Community Life 2 copias
You're Ugly, Too 2 copias
“Agnes of Kiowa” 1 copia
“How to be a Writer” 1 copia
Dance in America 1 copia
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 516 copias
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introducción — 380 copias
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 352 copias
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introducción — 221 copias
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Contribuidor — 67 copias
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contribuidor — 64 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Moore, Marie Lorena
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1957-01-13
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Glen Falls, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Educación
- St. Lawrence University
Cornell University (MFA|1982) - Ocupaciones
- professor (English)
short story writer
novelist - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2006)
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Premios y honores
- 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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Lorrie Moore suggestions en Short Stories (agosto 2023)
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