Mary La Chapelle

Mary La Chapelle (born April 28, 1955 Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American short story writer.

Life

She graduated from University of Minnesota, and from Vermont College with an MFA. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.^[1][2]

Her work appeared in Lumina,^[3] Nimrod, Northern Lit Review, Redbook, and First.

Awards

• 1986 PEN/Nelson Algren Fiction Award
• 1988 Whiting Writers' Award

Works

• House of heroes and other stories. Vintage Books. 1990. ISBN 9780679724575. 

Criticism

• Mary La Chapelle (February 19, 1989). "WHERE EVERYONE IS FAMOUS". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/19/books/where-everyone-is-famous.html?pagewanted=1. 

Anthologies

• Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers. Harper Perennial. June 1, 1995. ISBN 9780380781232. 

Reviews

In House of Heroes: And Other Stories, she chooses rough-hewn subjects - a mime and a giant who struggle with nonconformity, a boy who finds a dead body. But Ms. La Chapelle's writing and insights are smooth and elegant, a respite for readers bored with minimalist fiction and self-indulgent heroes.^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate/study/arts/writing/faculty.html
2. ^ http://pages.slc.edu/~mlacha/
3. ^ http://pages.slc.edu/~lumina/issues/vol3/
4. ^ KAREN RAY (October 2, 1988). "IN SHORT; FICTION". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/books/in-short-fiction-314388.html?pagewanted=1. 

External links

• "Mary La Chapelle", Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center

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