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Author of two New York Times best-sellers and three collections of short stories, a children's book and a ground-breaking collection of essays. She's been a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, O Magazine and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.
She has written many pilot scripts, for cable and network, and she created, wrote and ran the excellent, short-lived series State of Mind, starring Lili Taylor. She lives in Connecticut and is now Wesleyan University's Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing.
Bibliography
Come to Me (Collection, 1993)
Love Invents Us (Novel 1997)
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (2000)
Normal: Transsexual CEOS, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites With Attitude (NF, 2002)
Away (Novel, 2007)
Where the God of Love Hangs Out (2009) (short stories)
Lucky Us (Novel, 2014)
White Houses (Novel, 2018)
Amy Bloom's website
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Random House Reader's Circle: Away is loosely based on a real
woman in history. Can you tell us a bit about her life, and how you came upon
her story? Ultimately, how did you make her story your own?
Amy Bloom: I don't know that I'd call Lillian Alling a "real woman in
history." There've always been bits and fragments of a story about a foreign
woman, mute or silent by choice, who came up the Telegraph Trail, determined to
walk to Russia. There are no records of her arriving in Ellis Island and no
records of her life in Alaska and, of course, one of the first questions is: If
she didn't speak, how did they know where she was going? I ignored all the
fanciful parts and also all the shoddy investigations into her story (this was
the golden age of yellow journalismwhen whole wars were made up to sell papers)
and thought instead: If you weren't crazy or particularly adventurous, why would
you make this extraordinary trip? And I thought, I would only do it for love.
RHRC: Lillian Leyb's journey takes her across the globe, from Russia to
New York's Lower East Side, to Seattle, to Alaska, to Siberia. Did you chart out
her epic journey before writing? How did you conceive the arc of the ...
A love story for things lost and restored, a lyrical hymn to the power of forgiveness.
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