Sandra Newman

Sandra Newman

Sandra Newman (born November 6, 1965 in Boston ) is an American writer.

Life

Sandra Newman lived in England for twenty years. She studied at the Polytechnic of Central London (BA) and at the University of East Anglia (MA). Since returning to the USA, she has been working as a writer in New York City .

Newman's debut novel The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Newman writes novels and non-fiction books.

Works (selection)

• The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel . New York: Perennial, 2004
• Cake . Novel. London: Vintage, 2008
• Europe . New York: Children's Press, 2008
• with Howard Mittelmark: How not to write a novel: 200 mistakes to avoid at all costs if you ever want to get published . London: Penguin, 2009
• 4 classic American novels . Nathaniel Hawthorne; Mark Twain; Stephen Crane; Herman Melville. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2009
• Changeling: a memoir of parents lost and found . London: Chatto & Windus, 2010
• with Howard Mittelmark: Read this next: and discover your 500 new favorite books . London: Particular, 2010
• The Inca empire . New York: Children's Press, 2010
• Ancient Greece . New York: Children's Press, 2010
• The Western lit survival kit: How to read the classics without fear . London: Particular, 2012
• The country of Ice Cream Star . Novel. New York: ECCO, 2015
  • Ice Cream Star . Milena Adam in Romanian. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2019
• The heavens . Novel. New York: Grove Press, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Sandra Newman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Sandra Newman , at Matthes & Seitz