Laura Furman

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name = Laura Furman
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birthdate = 1945
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occupation = novelist, short story writer, editor
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Laura Furman (born 1945) is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the O. Henry Awards prize story collection. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She has written three collections of stories ("The Glass House, Watch Time Fly", and "Drinking with the Cook"), two novels ("The Shadow Line" and "Tuxedo Park"), and a memoir ("Ordinary Paradise"). Furman has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship. She founded "American Short Fiction", which was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award.

She is currently Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing.

Works

* Series Editor, "The O.Henry Prize Stories", 2003—
* "Drinking with the Cook" (story collection)
* "Ordinary Paradise" (memoir)
* "Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading" (edited with Elinore Standard)
* "Tuxedo Park" (novel)
* "Watch Time Fly" (story collection)
* "The Shadow Line" (novel)
* "The Glass House" (story collection and novella)

ee also

*O. Henry Awards

External links

* [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/profiles/Furman/Laura/ Faculty page at the University of Texas at Austin]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/editor.html Page at O. Henry Prize Stories website]
* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A81466 Article about Furman at The Austin Chronicle]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION = novelist, short story writer, editor
DATE OF BIRTH = 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH = New York City, New York, United States
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