Rosellen Brown
(b.1939)Rosellen Brown is an American author, and has been an instructor of English and creative writing at several universities, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Houston. She has won several grants and awards for her work, and her novel Before and After was adapted into a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson.
Genres: Historical
Novels
The Autobiography of My Mother (1976)
Tender Mercies (1978)
Civil Wars (1984)
Half a Heart (1991)
Before and After (1992)
The Lake on Fire (2018)
Tender Mercies (1978)
Civil Wars (1984)
Half a Heart (1991)
Before and After (1992)
The Lake on Fire (2018)
Collections
Some Deaths in the Delta (poems) (1970)
Street Games (1974)
Cora Fry (poems) (1977)
Banquet (1978)
A Rosellen Brown Reader (poems) (1992)
Cora Fry's Pillow Book (poems) (1994)
Street Games (1974)
Cora Fry (poems) (1977)
Banquet (1978)
A Rosellen Brown Reader (poems) (1992)
Cora Fry's Pillow Book (poems) (1994)
Non fiction show
Rosellen Brown recommends
In the Blink of an Eye (2019)
Jesse Blackadder
"In the Blink of an Eye moves inexorably through the stages of grief and blame after the most unthinkable but all too common tragedy, and Jesse Blackadder forcibly sweeps us along with her. She's created a complex family blindsided by loss, whose pain we can feel as it drags them apart and slowly, by intricate small steps, inches them toward forgiveness. I gave a whole day to this book, unable to put it down until I trusted that they'd found some light to guide them forward."
The Magnificent Esme Wells (2018)
Adrienne Sharp
"How Esme keeps her head, if not her innocence, among these fast-living, fast-dying Vegas and Hollywood stars makes Adrienne Sharp's novel fascinating and rich with secrets she tells with wit and gusto."
Wayward Saints (2012)
Suzzy Roche
"I'm jealous! How can it be that someone who sings like Suzzy Roche can also write this well, tell us so much not only about the music business but about the large hearts of her characters, the locales of their deepest pain and the sources of their strength? Her language is dazzling -- unpredictable, supremely funny, irreverent, and full of authority. Wayward Saints is the best and most surprising debut novel I've read since I can't remember when."
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Anthologies containing stories by Rosellen Brown
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Updike
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (1998)
Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
edited by
Kate Bernheimer
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Joyce Carol Oates and Shannon Ravenel
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