- Lynn Freed
Lynn Freed is a
fiction writer who was born and grew up inDurban ,South Africa . She came to New York as a graduate student, receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature fromColumbia University .Ms. Freed has published a collection of essays, "Reading, Writing & Leaving Home: Life on the Page" (Harcourt, 2005), a collection of stories, "The Curse of the Appropriate Man" (Harcourt, 2004), and five novels: "House of Women" (Little, Brown & Co., 2002), "The Mirror" (Crown Publishers, 1997), "The Bungalow" (Poseidon/Simon & Schuster, 1993), "Home Ground" (William Heinemann Ltd., London; Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1986) and "Heart Change" (New American Library, 1982; republished by Story Line Press in 2000 as "Friends of the Family".) Five of her books have appeared on
The New York Times "Notable Books of the Year" list.Ms Freed's short fiction, memoirs and essays have appeared in
The New Yorker ,Harper's ,The Atlantic Monthly ,Southwest Review , The Georgia Review, theMichigan Quarterly Review ,Tin House Magazine, The Santa Monica Review, The New York Times,The Washington Post ,Newsday ,Mirabella ,Elle ,House Beautiful ,House & Garden , and Vogue, among others. Her stories have been recommended inBest American Short Stories (1992) and in TheO. Henry Award : Prize Stories (2003). Her work is widely translated, and is included in a number of anthologies.In 2002, Ms. Freed received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters . She has received fellowships, grants and support from theNational Endowment for the Arts , TheGuggenheim Foundation ,The Rockefeller Foundation , and theLannan Foundation . In 1986, she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction for "Home Ground". "The Bungalow", "The Mirror" and "House of Women" were nominated for the award. "Friends of the Family" was short-listed for the 2000 Western States Book Award.Ms. Freed is Professor of English at the
University of California, Davis .External links
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