Name Rebecca Brown | Role Author | |
Books Unbroken Curses: Hidden S, The Gifts of the Body, The terrible girls, The end of youth, Excerpts from a Family M Similar People Motoyuki Shibata, Rebecca Julia Brown, Frank Hammond, Jack T Chick |
Rebecca Brown Reads from her book "Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary"
Biography
Brown is from Seattle, was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program and now serves as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington. Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Rebecca Brown is also a faculty advisor in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
Contents
- Rebecca Brown Reads from her book Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
- Biography
- Honors and awards
- Major works
- References
Brown’s diverse oeuvre contains collections of essays and short stories, a fictionalized autobiography, a modern bestiary, a memoir in the guise of a medical dictionary, a libretto for a dance opera, a play, and various kinds of fantasy. Brown has "a uniquely recognizable voice, writing as she does in a stark style that combines the minimalism of Ernest Hemingway with some of the incantatory rhythms of Gertrude Stein." She shares some personal preferences with the latter.