Background
Kanter, Lynn was born on June 10, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is the daughter of Lois W. and Julian Paul Kanter.
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Lynn Kanter and Michele Brafman at the Temple Sinai annual Authors' Roundtable.
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On Lill Street
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1992
The Mayor of Heaven
(The Mayor of Heaven begins as four friends prepare for a ...)
The Mayor of Heaven begins as four friends prepare for a party saluting Claire Morganstern - charismatic, dynamic, and dead of breast cancer at 45. Claire's partner Lucy and her friends Rasheda, Jane, and Harry struggle to reshape their lives, their allegiances, and their expectations as they learn to live with her absence. Lucy discovers that grief is a new form of gravity that alters the world. Rasheda reaches for a definition of family that both transcends tradition and includes her husband and little girl, while Harry wonders how he can continue to love women in the midst of this epidemic. Jane fights to balance a new passion with an old secret. And Claire - who has been dead six months when the book begins - still manages to pull the strings.
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2000
Her Own Vietnam
(For thirty years, Della Brown has tried to forget her ser...)
For thirty years, Della Brown has tried to forget her service as a U.S. Army nurse treating horrific battlefield injuries in Vietnam. But now an unexpected message arrives that propels her into harrowing memories of the past. She must also confront the fissures in her family life, the mystery of her father’s disappearance, the things mothers and daughters cannot - maybe should not - know about one another, and the lifelong repercussions of a single mistake.
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2018
Lynn Kanter
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Lynn Kanter studied at Kirkland College a small, private liberal arts women's college located in Clinton, New York, from 1968 to 1978. Kanter graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1976.
Career
Lynn Kanter is the author of the novels Her Own Vietnam, The Mayor of Heaven and On Lill Street. All of her novels explore the terrain of women’s friendships and the impact of public events on personal lives.
Kanter's short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Lost Orchard, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, and The Time of Our Lives, and the literary journal Verbsap. Her nonfiction has appeared in Referential Magazine and the anthologies Coming Out of Cancer, Testimonies, and Confronting Cancer, Constructing Change.
Since 1992 Lynn Kanter has worked as a writer for the Center for Community Change, a national social justice organization.
Achievements
Works
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The Mayor of Heaven
(The Mayor of Heaven begins as four friends prepare for a ...)
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Her Own Vietnam
(For thirty years, Della Brown has tried to forget her ser...)
2018 - On Lill Street 1992
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The Mayor of Heaven
Views
Lynn is a lifelong activist for feminist and other progressive causes.
Quotations: “The landscape that interests me most is the rich, diverse, varying world of lesbian life. For me, this does not mean telling stories about the act of coming out, or about facing discrimination, although these narratives are important. It means telling stories about the lives of women who have examined and rejected one of the most fundamental premises of our society, and who have constructed their personal worlds with the same degree of courage and questioning.”
Membership
Personality
Kanter was a volunteer with the National Breast Cancer Coalition and Mary-Helen Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer.
Interests
Connections
Lynn Kanter lives in Washington, DC with her wife.
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1976