Elizabeth McCracken

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Elizabeth McCracken (2014)

Elizabeth McCracken (born September 16, 1966 in Boston ) is an American writer of short stories and novels . She holds the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas .

Life

Elizabeth McCracken attended High School in Newton, Massachusetts and studied English at Boston University . She attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop , received an MFA from the University of Iowa, and trained as a librarian from Drexel University . McCracken was a Guggenheim Fellow and received a. a. Scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts , the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin in 2004 and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2008/09 .

She worked for a while as a librarian and gave seminars in creative writing at various university institutes , including at the University of Iowa . In 1996 she was nominated for the National Book Award and in 2002 she won the LL Winship / PEN New England Award with Niagara Falls All Over Again . Elizabeth McCracken is friends with the writer Ann Patchett , a role model for her is the author and activist Grace Paley .

McCracken lives in Austin , Texas, is married with two children. She dealt with the loss of a child during pregnancy in her book Memoir: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination .

Works (selection)

  • Here's your hat what's your hurry: stories . New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1993
    • Among angels, unnoticed . From the American. by Elke Link. Munich: Goldmann, 1994
  • The giant's house: a romance . New York: Dial Press, 1996
    • Your head in the clouds. Novel . From the American. by Sabine Roth. Munich: Goldmann, 1998
  • Niagara Falls all over again . New York: Dial Press, 2001
  • An exact replica of a figment of my imagination: a memoir . New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008
    • Just a laugh . From the American. by Lieselotte Prugger. Munich: Goldmann, 2003
  • Thunderstruck & other stories . New York: The Dial Press, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elizabeth McCracken , at University of Texas at Austin
  2. ↑ Elizabeth McCracken , website
  3. ↑ Small Talk: Elizabeth McCracken , in: Financial Times , June 21, 2014, p. 14
  4. ↑ Elizabeth McCracken ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at American Academy in Berlin @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.americanacademy.de
personal data
SURNAME McCracken, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston