Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore (2014)

Lorrie Moore (*  13. January 1957 in Glens Falls , New York as Marie Lorena Moore ) is an American writer. She was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . Moore gained fame primarily through her short stories, for which she received the O. Henry Prize and the Rea Award for the Short Story . Her short story book Birds of America also achieved a placement on the New York Times bestseller list .

Life

Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls in 1957 as the second of four children and was already called "Lorrie" by her parents. With the help of a highly gifted scholarship, she began studying English at St. Lawrence University , which she graduated summa cum laude in 1978 . While she was a student, Moore won a writing contest for Seventeen magazine with her short story Raspberries . After graduating, she worked as a paralegal for two years, but then enrolled at Cornell University , where she earned a Master of Fine Arts under the supervision of Alison Lurie . During her master's degree, Moore was able to sell individual short stories to magazines. With the Self Help collection , which mainly consisted of short stories from her master’s thesis, she finally found a renowned publisher in Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Since 1984 Moore taught English at the University of Wisconsin . Over the course of her career, she has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation (1989) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1989), a Guggenheim grant (1991), the O. Henry Prize (1998, for People like that are the only people around here ) and the Rea Award for the Short Story (2004, for their formative influence on the genre of the short story). Her short story You're Ugly, Too was added to The Best American Short Stories of the Century collection by John Updike .

Moore has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001 and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2006 .

Works

  • See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticisms, and Commentary . Faber, 2018
Volumes of short stories
  • Life is a matter of luck ( Self-Help , 1985, German 1991)
  • Pepsi Hotel ( Like Life , 1990, German 1992)
  • What cannot be said of some people ( Birds of America , 1998, German 2000)
  • The Collected Stories (2008).
  • Thank you for letting me come , short stories ( Bark ), Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-1197-8 .
Novels
  • The Displacements of the Benna Carpenter , 1988 ( Anagrams , 1986)
  • The Frog Queen , 1996 ( Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, 1994)
  • A Gateway to the World , 2011 ( A Gate at the Stairs , 2009)
Children's books
  • The Forgotten Imp , 2004 ( The Forgotten Helper , 1987)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Accessed July 26, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Lorrie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, Marie Lorena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Glens Falls , New York