Nationality United States Name Laura Furman | Role Author | |
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Occupation novelist, short story writer, editor Education Bennington College (1963–1968) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Ordinary paradise, Tuxedo Park, Drinking with the cook, The Shadow Line, Watch time fly | ||
Long Lost Diaries Inspire Laura Furman
Laura J. Furman (born 1945) is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the [O. Henry Prize Stories]. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere'.
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Furman was born in New York City and attended Hunter College High School and Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. In 1978, she moved to Houston, Texas. After living in Houston, Galveston, Dallas, and Lockhart she settled in Austin with her husband, Joel Warren Barna, and their son.
She has written four collections of stories The Glass House, Watch Time Fly, Drinking with the Cook, The Mother Who Stayed, two novels The Shadow Line and Tuxedo Park, and a memoir Ordinary Paradise.
She taught for twenty-eight years at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was Susan Taylor McDaniel Regents Professor of Creative Writing. While at UT, she founded the literary magazine American Short Fiction, which was twice a finalist for the National Magazine Award.
Furman’s most recent book of fiction, The Mother Who Stayed: Stories, was published in February 2011