Lynn Freed

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Lynn Freed
BornDurban, South Africa
OccupationWriter
EducationPh.D. English Literature, Columbia University, M.A. English Literature Columbia University, B.A. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Notable works"The Romance of Elsewhere", "The Last Laugh", "The Servants' Quarters", "Reading, Writing and Leaving Home, Life on the Page", "The Curse of the Appropriate Man", "House of Women", "The Mirror", The Bungalow, "Home Ground", "Friends of the Family"
ChildrenJessica Gamsu
Website
lynnfreed.com

Lynn Freed is a writer known for her work as a novelist, essayist, and writer of short stories.

Life

Lynn Freed was born and grew up in

Durban, South Africa. She came to New York City as a graduate student, receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University
.

After moving to San Francisco, she wrote her first novel, Heart Change (republished as Friends of the Family). Since then, she has published six more novels: Home Ground, The Bungalow, The Mirror, House of Women, The Servants' Quarters and The Last Laugh. She has a collection of short stories, The Curse of the Appropriate Man and two collections of essays: Reading, Writing & Leaving Home: Life on the Page and The Romance of Elsewhere.[1]

Freed's short fiction and essays have appeared in

Travel & Leisure and Vogue
, among others. Her work is widely translated, and is included in a number of anthologies.

In 2011, Freed won an

Times Literary Supplement and other journals.[2]

In 2002, Freed was awarded the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award in fiction by the

MacDowell Colony, among others.[1]

Freed is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis).

Awards

In 2002, Lynn Freed received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction from the

Lannan Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation. In 1986, she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction, and her short fiction has been recommended in "Best American Short Stories" and the "O'Henry Awards: Prize Stories". In 2011 she won the PEN/O. Henry Prize for her short story "Sunshine," originally published in Narrative Magazine, and, in 2015 she won the PEN/O. Henry Prize for her short story, "The Way Things Are Going", originally published in Harper's Magazine.[4]

Works

  • "The Romance of Elsewhere" (2017)
  • "The Last Laugh" (2017)
  • "The Servants' Quarters" (2009)
  • "Reading, Writing & Leaving Home: Life on the Page" (2005)
  • "The Curse of the Appropriate Man, Stories" (2004)
  • "House of Women" (2002)
  • "The Mirror" (1997)
  • The Bungalow (1993)
  • Home Ground (1986)
  • Friends of the Family (first published as Heart Change, 1982)

References

  1. ^ a b "Lynn Freed - Bio & Education". lynnfreed.com. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Lynn Freed - Bio & Education". lynnfreed.com. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  3. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Lynn Freed - Bio & Education". lynnfreed.com. Retrieved 27 May 2022.

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