Background
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum was born on February 14, 1972, in Houston, Texas, United States.
Providence, RI 02912, USA
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum graduated from Brown University.
507 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52245, USA
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum graduated from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Sarah Shun-lien's portrait.
170 Centre St, Milton, MA 02186, USA
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum studied at Milton Academy and graduated in 1990.
(An extraordinary debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping received ju...)
An extraordinary debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping received jubilant critical acclaim and was honored with a National Book Award nomination. Part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story, this "dream of a book" is an adventure in the discovery of art, sexuality, community, and the self.
https://www.amazon.com/Madeleine-Sleeping-Harvest-Sarah-Shun-lien/dp/0156032279/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most vuln...)
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most vulnerable, then explores those precarious moments in sharp, graceful prose. From this most innovative of young writers comes another journey down the rabbit hole to the wonderland of middle school, memory, daydreaming, and the extraordinary business of growing up.
https://www.amazon.com/Hempel-Chronicles-Sarah-Shun-lien-Bynum/dp/0547247753/?tag=2022091-20
2008
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum was born on February 14, 1972, in Houston, Texas, United States.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum graduated from Brown University in 1995 and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2000. She also studied at Milton Academy and graduated in 1990.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's main work as a writer is Madeleine Is Sleeping. Bynum's novel is filled with a cast of exotic characters, including an artist fashioned after the actual French performer Le Petomane, who made music by breaking wind, a woman who sprouts wings, and another who grows viola strings. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Bynum explained to David Medaris in DailyPage.com that “a few of the characters probably began as a little piece of grit - a feeling of discomfort and anxiety (over fatness, hairiness, disfigurement) - and through heightening and re-imagining these grotesque attributes, I think I hoped to turn that discomfort into the source of something lustrous and remarkable and lovely."
Bynum's novel tells the adventures of Madeleine, who, upon falling into a deep sleep, dreams of joining a gypsy circus and there, as Library Journal critic Barbara Hoffert noted, “encounters love in all its manifestations." Bynum creates, as a contributor to Publishers Weekly observed, “a perverse revisitation" of Ludwig Bemelman's famous children's books about Madeleine. The same critic felt that Bynum “alternates deftly between reality and illusion" in this “remarkable debut." However. Caroline M. Hallsworth, writing in Library Journal, felt that "pervasive darkness and sexuality render the novel anything but light and childlike." and that Bynum's “multilayered story is complex and sometimes disconcerting."
(An extraordinary debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping received ju...)
2004(Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most vuln...)
2008In an interview for The Newyorker, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum admitted that she doubted whether she should be a writer. However, she managed to write and publish a successful book, making a great debut.