Maxine Clair
Maxine Clair (born 1939) is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. Her debut novel Rattlebone won the Heartland Prize in 1994.[1][2] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 1995.[3]
Biography
Clair attended the University of Kansas and went onto a career in medical technology, becoming the chief technologist at a children's hospital in the Washington, D.C. area. While working in the hospital she became interested in writing and completed an M.F.A at American University.[4] Clair went on to become a professor at George Washington University until 2008 when she retired as professor emerita.[4][5] Her first book, the poetry collection Coping with Gravity, was published in 1988.[6]
Clair's best known work is the 1994 novel Rattlebone, the title of which comes from the neighborhood Rattlebone Hollow in the north of Kansas City. The novel was reissued by
References
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- ^ "FRIENDS OF LITERATURE DROPS ANNUAL AWARDS PROGRAM". Chicago Tribune. 1995-04-06. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ "Search Results - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". 2013-07-04. Archived from the original on 2013-07-04. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ a b "FOR MAXINE CLAIR, WRITING WAS WORTH THE RISK". Orlando Sentinel. 1994-08-06. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ Hopkinson, Natalie (7 October 2002). "At the Hurston/Wright Awards, an Anthology of Talent". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ISBN 0787632392. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
- ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ Tyner, Howard A., ed. (October 9, 1994). "The 1994 Chicago Tribune Literary Awards". The Chicago Tribune. p. sec. 14 p. 10.