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Amy Bloom is the author of three novels, three collections of short stories, a children's book and a collection of essay. She has 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, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction. Her best-selling novel, Away, was an epic story about a Russian immigrant. Her most recent and best-selling novel, Lucky Us, came out in 2014. She lives in Connecticut and taught at Yale University for the last decade. She is now Wesleyan University's Distinguished University Writer in Residence.
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)
Amy Bloom's website
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Amy Bloom explains how a long night of dictation to a former student, plus a bottle of wine, led to the creation of Away, an epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent and accidental heroine.
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 journalism–when 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.
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