Background
Lynn Freed was born and grew up in Durban, South Africa.
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Lynn Freed
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And Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature from Columbia University.
Career
She came to New York as a graduate student, where she earned both an Master of Arts She has taught Literature and Creative Writing at Bennington College in Vermont, Saint Mary"s College in Moraga, California, the University of California in Berkeley, the University of Oregon in Eugene, the University of Montana in Missoula and the University of Texas in Austin. Freed is the author of six novels, including "The Servants" Quarters", "House of Women", "The Mirror", "The Bungalow", "Home Ground" and "Friends of the Family". She also has a collection of short fiction, "The Curse of the Appropriate Manitoba", and a collection of essays, "Reading, Writing, & Leaving Home: on the Page".
Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper"s, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, Tin House, The Michigan Quarterly, Vogue Magazine, The Georgia Review, Mirabella, House Beautiful, House and Garden, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Ploughshares, and Newsday, among others, and have been broadly anthologized.
Her work is also widely translated. She has also received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, The Camargo Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Lannan Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation.
Four of her novels and her collection of stories have appeared on The New York Times "Notable Books of the Year" list. She is currently a professor of English at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches in both undergraduate and graduate programs.
She lives in Northern California.
Achievements
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In 2002, Mississippi Freed received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also received fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 1986, she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers" Award for Fiction. In 2011 she won the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/O. Henry Prize for her short story "Sunshine," originally published in Narrative Magazine.
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South Africa
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Anne Porter Award; Prize Stories In 2002, Ms. Freed received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also received fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 1986, she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction. In 2011 she won the PEN/O. Henry Prize for her short story "Sunshine," originally published in Narrative Magazine.Anne Porter Award; Prize Stories In 2002, Ms. Freed received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also received fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 1986, she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction. In 2011 she won the PEN/O. Henry Prize for her short story "Sunshine," originally published in Narrative Magazine.