Lynn Freed

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Lynn Freed is a fiction writer who was born and grew up in Durban, South Africa. She came to New York as a graduate student, receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Columbia University.

Ms. Freed has published a collection of essays, Reading, Writing & Leaving Home: Life on the Page (Harcourt, 2005), a collection of stories, The Curse of the Appropriate Man (Harcourt, 2004), and five novels: House of Women (Little, Brown & Co., 2002), The Mirror (Crown Publishers, 1997), The Bungalow (Poseidon/Simon & Schuster, 1993), Home Ground (William Heinemann Ltd., London; Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1986) and Heart Change (New American Library, 1982; republished by Story Line Press in 2000 as Friends of the Family.) Five of her books have appeared on The New York Times "Notable Books of the Year" list.

Ms Freed's short fiction, memoirs and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, Tin House Magazine, The Santa Monica Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Mirabella, Elle, House Beautiful, House & Garden, and Vogue, among others. Her stories have been recommended in Best American Short Stories (1992) and in The O. Henry Award: Prize Stories (2003). Her work is widely translated, and is included in a number of anthologies.

In 2002, Ms. Freed received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 1986, she won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction for Home Ground. The Bungalow, The Mirror and House of Women were nominated for the award. Friends of the Family was short-listed for the 2000 Western States Book Award.

Ms. Freed is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.