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Name
  
Lucy Honig


Role
  
Short story writer

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Education
  
Syracuse University, Hunter College

Books
  
The Truly Needy And Other Sto, Waiting for Rescue: A Novel, Open Season: Stories, Picking Up: By Lucy Honig

English as a Foreign Language


Lucy Honig (born 1948) is an American short story writer.

Contents

Life

She graduated from Syracuse University and from Hunter College with a master's in education. She teaches in the Boston University School of Public Health .

Her work appeared in AGNI, DoubleTake, Gargoyle, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares

Awards

  • 1998 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
  • 1992, 1996 O. Henry Award for short fiction
  • L.L. Winship PEN New England award finalist

    • Short Stories

  • Open Season. Scala House Publishers, LLC. 2002. ISBN 978-0-9720287-2-1. 
  • The truly needy and other stories. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8229-5781-2.  (reprint 2002)
  • English as a Second Language. 20 Century American Short Stories - Volume 2. 1995. 

    • Novels

  • Waiting for Rescue: A Novel. Counterpoint. 2009. ISBN 978-1-58243-527-5. 
  • Picking up: by Lucy Honig. Dog Ear Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-937966-20-4. 

    • Anthologies

  • Best American Short Stories 1988,
  • William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1992). Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-42192-8. 
  • John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4. 

    • Reviews

    The title of Lucy Honig’s debut collection, winner of the 1999 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, echoes the familiar plea of fundraisers and activists to forget selfish personal concerns and remember the less fortunate. But for Honig, helping the truly needy can sometimes be a losing battle with hunger, addiction, and less tangible obstacles.

    References

    Lucy Honig Wikipedia
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