Background

Lynne DeCourcy was born on December 30, 1946, in Greenwich. She is the daughter of Frederick Hugo, an army officer, and Evelyn Hugo.

Education

In 1969 Lynne DeCourcy received a Bachelor of Arts at Connecticut College. Five years after she got a Master of Science degree at Miami University.

Career

Lynne DeCourcy is a popular writer. She authored several amazing books among which are Zone 3 and The Good Child. Lynne is also a contributor to periodicals, including Fiction Writers, Ohio Journal of English Language Arts, Calliope, Calyx, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Tar River Poetry, Women’s Words, and Wisconsin Review. DeCourcy’s novels have been published in French and in Germany, Argentina, Israel, Japan, and the Netherlands.

Her novel Swimming Lessons was adapted as the television movie Another Woman’s Husband, broadcast by Lifetime Cable Network in 2000.

Achievements

• The publications of DeCourcy include eight novels, one volume of creative non-fiction, two books of poetry and a children's book.
  
  Lynne is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient. She has also received grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her book Where The Trail Grows Faint, won the Riverteeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize and her novel, A Matter of Mercy, received the 2015 Independent Publishers Silver Medal for Best North-East Fiction.

Works

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  • Swimming Lessons: A Novel

    (Terrified of the water but needing to learn how to swim, ...)

    1998
  • A Matter of Mercy

    (A Matter of Mercy is a riveting novel about treasuring th...)

    2014
  • Jessica's Two Familes: Helping Children Learn to Cope with Blended Households

    (With honesty and compassion, Jessica's Two Families teach...)

    2005
  • Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team

    (Where the Trail Grows Faint is the story of Hugo’s experi...)

    2005
  • The Time Change: Poems 1992
  • A Progress of Miracles 1993
  • Zone 3 1991
  • The Good Child 1990
  • The Testament of Harold's Wife 2018
  • Remember My Beauties 2016
  • Graceland 2006
  • Baby's Breath 2000
  • Last Rights: An Anthology 2009
  • The Unspoken Years 2006

Membership

Lynne DeCourcy is a member of Writers Guild and Poets and Writers.

Interests

• hiking, dog training

• Music & Bands

  Letterhead, Lisa Biales

Connections

Lynne married Alan DeCourcy on May 31, 1969. They have two children: David Alan and Brooke Hugo.

Father:

Frederick Hugo

Mother:

Evelyn Hugo

Spouse:

Alan DeCourcy

child:

David Alan DeCourcy

child:

Brooke Hugo DeCourcy