- Lawrence Thornton
Lawrence Thornton ( 1937 – ) is an American author.
He was born in Fremont, California and received a B.A. (1960), M.A. (1967) and Ph.D.(1973) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his first novel, "
Imagining Argentina ", which won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, the Shirley Collier Award from UCLA, the PEN American Center West Award for Best Novel, and a nomination for a PEN/Faulkner Best Novel Award. He has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently resides in California.Bibliography:
Non-fiction
* "Unbodied Hope: Narcissism And the Modern Novel", 1984Fiction
* "Imagining Argentina ", 1987 (made into a movie in 2003)* "Second Death of Juan Cabrillo", 1989
* "Under the Gypsy Moon", 1990
* "Marlow's Book", 1991
* "Ghost Woman", 1992* "Naming the Spirits", 1995
* "Tales from the Blue Archives", 1997
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