A. M. Homes

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Amy Michael Homes (born 1961) is an American fiction writer known for her controversial and unusual stories, most notably The End of Alice (1996), a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. She is also the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life (2006), Music for Torching (1999), In a Country of Mothers (1993), and Jack (1989), and the story collections The Safety of Objects (1990) and Things You Should Know (2002).

Her fiction has been translated into 12 languages, and she is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Foundation for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

Her work appears in magazines such as Artforum and Vanity Fair, among others. In 2004, The New Yorker published "The Mistress's Daughter", an essay about Homes's meeting, after 31 years, the biological parents who had put her up for adoption at birth. The essay was excerpted from a memoir that will be published in 2007.^[1]

Homes lives in New York City. Between May and mid July 2007 she will be writer in residence in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.