Name Lynne Schwartz | Role Writer | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award for First Novel Books Ruined by Reading: A Life in Bo, Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn, Two‑Part Inventions: A Novel, Rough Strife | ||
A conversation with lynne sharon schwartz
Lynne Sharon Schwartz (born March 19, 1939) is a contemporary American writer.
Contents
- A conversation with lynne sharon schwartz
- Meet lynne sharon schwartz
- Biography
- Selected works
- References
Meet lynne sharon schwartz
Biography
Schwartz grew up in Brooklyn, the second of three children of Jack M. Sharon, a lawyer and accountant, and Sarah Slatus Sharon; she married Harry Schwartz in 1957. She holds a BA (1959) from Barnard College, an MA (1961) from Bryn Mawr, and started work on a PhD at NYU. Schwartz has taught in many universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College. Lynne Sharon Schwartz lives in New York City, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres, from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, and translation from Italian.