Lily King

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Lily King (* 1963 in the USA ) is an American author and university professor .

Life

King grew up in Massachusetts and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After graduating from Syracuse University with a Masters of Arts degree in Creative Writing , she taught English literature and creative writing at various North American universities and high schools.

In 1995 her first collection of short stories came out as a book. This has been followed by four novels so far (2015), some of which have been awarded prizes. Other short stories have been published in magazines such as Plowshares or Glimmer Train and in anthologies .

King is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony .

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • Up in Ontario and Other Stories . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1995.
  • The Pleasing Hour: A Novel . Atlantic Monthly Press, New York City, USA 1999, ISBN 0-87113-754-2 .
    • German: A houseboat in Paris , Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39950-0 .
  • The English Teacher: A Novel . Atlantic Monthly Press, New York City, USA 2005, ISBN 0-87113-897-2 .
  • Father of the Rain: A Novel . Grove / Atlantic, New York City, USA 2010, ISBN 978-0-8021-1949-0 .
  • Euphoria . Atlantic Monthly Press, New York City 2014, USA.
  • Writers & Lovers . Grove Press, New York City, USA 2020, ISBN 978-0-8021-4853-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lily King: Whiting Writers' Award 2000 Winner in Fiction
  2. ↑ Kirkus Prize for Fiction 2014 Winner
  3. ^ Roman Euphoria Portrait of an exciting ethnologist , review in Deutschlandradio Kultur on July 29, 2015, accessed August 4, 2015
  4. ↑ You always see what you are looking for in FAZ of July 25, 2015, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME King, Lily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH United States