Language English Period 1984–present Education Bard College | Alma mater Bard College Role Writer Nationality American Name Rikki Ducornet | |
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Awards Lannan Literary Award for Fiction Books The one marvelous thing, The Jade Cabinet, The Stain, The Complete Butcher's, The fan‑maker's inquisition | ||
Port townsend film festival artist author rikki ducornet interview
Rikki Ducornet (; born Erica DeGre, April 19, 1943 in Canton, New York) is an American writer, poet, and artist.
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- Port townsend film festival artist author rikki ducornet interview
- CalArts Writing Now Reading Series Rikki Ducornet
- Biography
- Awards
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CalArts Writing Now Reading Series: Rikki Ducornet
Biography
Ducornet's father was a professor of sociology, and her mother hosted community-interest programs on radio and television. Ducornet grew up on the campus of Bard College in New York, earning a B.A. in Fine Arts from the same institution in 1964. While at Bard she met Robert Coover and Robert Kelly, two authors who shared Ducornet's fascination with metamorphosis and provided early models of how fiction might express this interest. In 1972 she moved to the Loire Valley in France with her then husband, Guy Ducornet. In 1988 she won a Bunting Institute fellowship at Radcliffe. In 1989 she moved back to the United States after accepting a teaching position in the English Department at The University of Denver. In 2007, she replaced retired Dr. Ernest Gaines as Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Ducornet is the subject of Steely Dan's "Rikki Don't Lose That Number." Steely Dan co-front Donald Fagen had met her while both were attending Bard College, a small liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Ducornet says they met at a college party, and even though she was both pregnant and married at the time, he gave her his number, although not in the same context as the song. Ducornet was intrigued by Fagen and tempted to call him, but she decided against it.
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