AM Homes
Amy Michael Homes (born December 16, 1961 in Washington, DC ) is an American writer.
Life
Homes' works have been translated into twelve languages and she has received numerous awards for her literature, including a Guggenheim grant and the 1993 German Youth Literature Prize for her novel “Jack”.
Her work appears in magazines such as Artforum and Vanity Fair . In 2004, The New Yorker published the essay "The Mistress's Daughter", which describes Homes' meeting with their birth parents. This took place 31 years after her birth, after which she was given up for adoption.
In 1996 she published a book on child abuse , The End of Alice , told from the perspective of a pedophile serving life imprisonment. This book was very controversial, especially because sex with children is portrayed as something completely natural in the eyes of the protagonists. When the book was published in Great Britain in 1997, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) called for this book not to be brought onto the market, which most booksellers did not adhere to.
In 2006 published the book Homes This Book Will Save Your Life ( This book will save your life ).
Homes lives in New York City .
Prizes and awards
- 2013: Women's Prize for Fiction for May We Be Forgiven
Works
- Novels and collections of stories
- Jack (1989)
- The Safety of Objects , dt. The reliability of the things (1990)
- In a Country of Mothers (1993)
- The End of Alice (1996)
- Appendix A: an elaboration on the novel The End of Alice (1996)
- Music for Torching (1999)
- Things You Should Know (2002)
- This Book Will Save Your Life (2006), dt. This book will save your life (2007)
- May We Be Forgiven (2012)
- Non-fictional
- Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill (2002)
- On the Street 1980–1990 (2006) (introduction to a book by Amy Arbus )
- The Mistress's Daughter (2004/2007)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about AM Homes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web presence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Homes, AM |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Homes, Amy Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |