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Lynne Sharon Schwartz


USA flag (b.1939)

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a contemporary writer. She grew up in Brooklyn and holds a BA from Barnard College, an MA from Bryn Mawr, and stated work on a PhD at NYU. Schwartz has taught in myriad universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College. Lynne Sharon Schwartz lives in New York, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres—from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, and even to translation from Italian.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Rough Strife (1980)
   Balancing Acts (1981)
   Disturbances in the Field (1983)
   Leaving Brooklyn (1988)
   The Fatigue Artist (1995)
   In the Family Way (1999)
   Writing on the Wall (2005)
   Two-Part Inventions (2012)
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Collections
   Acquainted with the Night (1984)
   The Melting Pot (1987)
   A Lynne Sharon Schwartz Reader (poems) (1992)
   In Solitary (poems) (2002)
   Referred Pain (2004)
   See You in the Dark (poems) (2012)
   No Way Out But Through (poems) (2017)
   Truthtelling (2020)
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Non fiction
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Anthologies containing stories by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Michael Chabon and Katrina Kenison
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The Best American Short Stories 1996 (1996)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Edgar Wideman
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The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Joyce Carol Oates and Shannon Ravenel

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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1990) : Leaving Brooklyn


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