Ellen Akins
Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana. She graduated from LaSalle High School in 1977, earning a BA in film production at the University of Southern California before working with Sydney Pollack. After losing interest in the film business, Akins enrolled in the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University.[1] In April 1993 she was awarded the Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her fiction writing;[2] she has also been given grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation,[1] and won the Whiting Writer's Award in 1989.[3]
Akins is the author of five novels; Home Movie, published in 1988 by Simon & Schuster,[4] Little Woman, published in 1990 by Harper & Row,[5] Public Life, published in 1993 by HarperCollins,[2] and Hometown Brew, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998.[1] As well as writing, Akins has also taught at Western Michigan University, Northland College,[2] and Fairleigh Dickinson University.[6]
References
- ^ a b c Hughes, Andrew S. (August 27 1998). "Hometown Brewed: South Bend native and author Ellen Akins has built a critical reputation book by book". South Bend Tribune.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c Gillespie, Mary (23 May 1993). "Intense, Urgent Novel Skewers Politics". Chicago Sun-Times.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ McDowell, Edwin (27 October 1989). "10 Get Awards for Writers". The New York Times.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Prose, Francine (20 November 1988). "California Dreams and Obsessions". The Washington Post.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Winders, Glenda (July 22 1990). "Complicated characters mar `Little Woman'". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Ellen Akins". Cheqtel Communications. Retrieved 28 November 2010.