Mameve Medwed

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Mameve Medwed
Born(1942-12-09)December 9, 1942
Simmons College
Website
www.mamevemedwed.com

Mameve S. Medwed (December 9, 1942 – December 26, 2021) was an American novelist.[2] She was the author of Mail, Host Family, The End of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (for which she received a 2007 Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honor), and Of Men and Their Mothers.

Name

Medwed's first name is pronounced "May-Meeve". According to her website, she was named for her two grandmothers, Mamie and Eva.[3]

Life and career

Medwed was born in

Simmons College.[2]
Medwed continued to give readings and lectures and participated in library panels and book festivals in later life.

Her short stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in, among others,

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in 2007.

Medwed lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[5][6] where she died from lung cancer on December 26, 2021, at the age of 79.[4][7]

Novels

  • Mail (1997)
  • Host Family (2000)
  • The End of an Error (2003)
  • How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (2006)
  • Of Men and Their Mothers (2008)
  • Minus Me (2021)

References

  1. ^ a b Andresen, Kristen (March 27, 2006). "Chamber pot of gold". Bangor Daily News.
  2. ^ a b c "Medwed, Mameve". Encyclopedia.com. Gale. 2009.
  3. ^ "Mameve Medwed Official Website". AboutMameve. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b Schwartz, Penny. "Mameve Medwed, novelist whose 'New England Jewish wit' infused her work, dies at 79". Times of Israel. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  5. ^ Williamson, Eugenia (June 27, 2015). "Cambridge author Mameve Medwed relishes revisions".
    Boston Globe
    . Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  6. ^ Uviller, Daphne (April 15, 2006). "Bangor's Other Novelist". Newsday.
  7. ^ "Mameve S. Medwed". Legacy. 27 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

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