Anne Leaton

Anne Leaton (born July 13 1932) is a novelist, short story writer, and poet whose works have been published in England and America and whose radio plays have been broadcast on the BBC. Born in Cleburne, Texas, she studied English and creative writing at Indiana University and Texas Tech University and was a Fulbright scholar to Germany, after which she spent twenty years traveling and working in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and Canada. Her major works include the novels "Good Friends, Just" (1983), "Pearl" (1985), "Blackbird, Bye, Bye" (1989), and the collection of short stories, "Mayakovsky, My Love" (1984). She has received numerous awards for her fiction and poetry, including twice being the recipient of an O. Henry Award for her short stories. She also has contributed essays to a number of collections, including "Mothers and Daughters" edited by Joanna Goldsworthy and published by Virago Press in 1995. Leaton's work has been compared to other writers whose focus has been primarily upon social mores and human foibles--specifically such novelists and short story writers as Jane Austen, Henry James, and John Cheever.

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"A Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present". Ed. by Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. Yale University Press, 1990.