Lawrence Thornton

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Lawrence Thornton ( 1937 – ) is an American author.

He was born in Fremont, California and received a B.A. (1960), M.A. (1967) and Ph.D.(1973) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his first novel, Imagining Argentina, which won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, the Shirley Collier Award from UCLA, the PEN American Center West Award for Best Novel, and a nomination for a PEN/Faulkner Best Novel Award. He has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently resides in California.

[edit] Bibliography:

Non-fiction

  • Unbodied Hope: Narcissism And the Modern Novel, 1984

Fiction

  • Second Death of Juan Cabrillo, 1989
  • Under the Gypsy Moon, 1990
  • Marlow's Book, 1991
  • Ghost Woman, 1992
  • Naming the Spirits, 1995
  • Tales from the Blue Archives, 1997