Background

Erin McGraw was born on December 20, 1957, in Redondo Beach, California, United States. She is a daughter of C. Thomas McGraw, a physician, and Eva Marie (Begovich) McGraw, a homemaker.

Education

In 1979, Erin received Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis. Later, she attended Indiana University Bloomington, graduating with Master of Fine Arts degree in 1986.

Career

Between 1985-1986, Erin served as an instructor at DePauw University in Greencastle. Later, during the period from 1986 till 1991, she held a post of an assistant professor of English at the same university.

In 1988, Erin was a fellow of Yaddo Colony. Later, in 1991, she was appointed an assistant professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.

In her later years, Erin moved to the Ohio State University, where she taught at the faculty of the Creative Writing Program alongside her husband, the poet Andrew Hudgins, until her retirement. Then, the couple settled down in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Achievements

• Erin McGraw is a well-know American author. Her most notable works include "The Baby Tree", "The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard" and "Better Food for a Better World: A Novel".
  
  During the period from 1989 till 1990, Erin was Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University. In 1994, she received a grant from Ohio Arts Council. Also, her work, "Lies of the Saints", was named a Notable Book for 1996 by The New York Times newspaper.

Works

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  • The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard

    (Based on the true story of the author’s grandmother, "The...)

    2008
  • Better Food for a Better World: A Novel

    (Ideals and reality collide when six college friends band ...)

    2013
  • The Baby Tree

    (Pastor Kate Gussey, with her husband Ned, provides a home...)

    2002
  • Bodies at Sea

    (This book contains eleven stories, that deal with marriag...)

    1989
  • The Good Life

    (This work represents a collection of short stories.)

    2004
  • Lies of the Saints

    (Short stories.)

    1996

Views

Quotations: "My fiction, both comic and dramatic, comes back over and over to certain besetting concerns: how does the place we live affect the world we see and the choices we make? What does an ethical life look like, and how in the world do we build it? One way or another, just about all of my work comes back to these questions."

Interests

• Coconut cake

Connections

Erin married Todd V. Titterud on December 5, 1982. In February, 1990, the couple divorced. Some time later, on April 18, 1992, McGraw married Andrew Hudgins, a writer, poet and professor.

Father:

C. Thomas McGraw

Mother:

Eva Marie (Begovich) McGraw

First husband:

Todd V. Titterud

Second husband:

Andrew Hudgins