Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom (born June 18, 1953 ) is an American writer.

Life

Amy Bloom studied theater and political science at Wesleyan University (BA) and social work at Smith College (Master of Social Work). She practiced as a psychotherapist .

Bloom writes stories that have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker , The New York Times Magazine , The Atlantic Monthly , Vogue , Slate , and Salon.com . Her short stories have been included in various anthologies. It won the National Magazine Award , and books were nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award . Bloom was Writer in Residence at Yale University and 2010 Wesleyan University .

In 2007 Bloom produced the seven-part television program State of Mind with actress Lili Taylor , in which the work of psychotherapists was thematized.

Bloom has three children from their first marriage and lives in Connecticut .

Works (selection)

• Silver water . Short story. 1991
• Come to Me: Stories . Short stories. 1993
  • Love is a strange child: stories . Translation of Adelheid Dormagen . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1995
• Love Invents Us . Novel. 1997
  • The girl in the fur coat: Roman . Translation Adelheid Dormagen and Karin Kersten . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1998
• A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories . 2000
• The story . Short stories. 2006
• Away . Novel. 2007
  • The Incredible Journey of Lillian Leyb: Roman . Translation of Adelheid Dormagen. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2008
• Where the God of Love Hangs Out . Short stories. 2009
  • Where the God of love lives: stories . Translation Adelheid Dormagen and Kathrin Razum . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2010
• Little sweet potato . Children's book. Harper Collins, 2012
• Lucky Us . Novel. 2014
  • We lucky ones: Roman . Translation of Kathrin Razum. Hamburg: Atlantic, 2015
• White Houses . Novel. 2018
  • We lucky ones: Roman . Translation of Kathrin Razum. Hamburg: Atlantic, 2015

Non-fiction

• Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-dressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude . 2002

Stage and television

• State of Mind (2007)
• Wish Dragon (2019)

Web links

• Literature by and about Amy Bloom in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Amy Bloom in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Amy Bloom at perlentaucher.de
• Amy Bloom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Amy Bloom , website
• Amy Bloom , at: New York State Writers Institute, 1997
• Amy Bloom , at Hoffmann and Campe