Valerie Martin

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Valerie Martin (2014)

Valerie Martin (born March 14, 1948 in Sedalia , Missouri ) is an American writer.

Life

Valerie Martin grew up in New Orleans . She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and received an MFA in creative writing . She later taught creative writing at several universities and colleges. She has been a professor of English at Mount Holyoke College since 2011 .

The film Mary Reilly , made by Stephen Frears in 1996, is based on her retelling of the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , the novel Mary Reilly previously received the Kafka Prize in 1990 . In 2001 she wrote Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis, a biography of Francis of Assisi . Her Roman Property received the Orange Prize in 2003 . In 2011 she received a Guggenheim scholarship .

Works (selection)

  • Sea lovers: selected stories . New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2015
  • The Ghost of the Mary Celeste . Novel. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2014
  • with Lisa Martin: Anton and Cecil: Cats at Sea . Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. ISBN 978-1-61620-246-0 [children's book]
  • The Confessions of Edward Day . Novel. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2009
  • Trespass . Novel. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2007
  • The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories . New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 2006
  • Property . Novel. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2003, ISBN 0-385-50408-X
  • Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis . New York: Knopf, 2001
  • Italian fever . Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 ISBN 978-0-307-83385-3
  • Cat women . Translation: Klara Vogel. Frankfurt am Main: Krüger, 1995
  • The Great Divorce . Novel. New York: NA Talese, 1993
  • Paths of Obsession . Translation: Rose Aichele. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1990
  • Mary Reilly . Novel. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990 ISBN 978-0-307-83387-7
    • In the house of Dr. Jekyll . Translation: Brigitte Walitzek. Frankfurt am Main: Krüger, 1990
  • The consolation of nature, and other stories . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988
    • The Cat in the Attic and Other Stories . Translation: Rose Aichele. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1992
  • A Recent Martyr . Novel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987
  • Alexandra . Novel. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979
    • Alexandra . Translation: Rose Aichele. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1990
  • Set in motion . Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978
    • The restless . Translation: Rose Aichele. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1991
  • Love: Short Stories . Spokane, Wash. : Lost Horse Press, 1976

literature

  • Veronica A Makowsky: The fiction of Valerie Martin: an introduction . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Valerie Martin , at: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Valerie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Sedalia , Missouri