Moira Crone

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Moira Crone (born 1952) is an American fiction author. She was born in the tobacco country in eastern North Carolina.

Crone's stories have been classified as "southern Gnostic", and as exemplifying the spirit of the new south. Her latest collection is a recreation of the life of a small town in the Carolinas, as seen across racial and class lines over a period from the 1950's to the present.

Moira Crone lives in New Orleans currently and is a professor at Louisiana State University where she served as director of the MFA program.

Crone's daughter, Anya Kamenetz, is a journalist and author.

Crone is married to Rodger Kamenetz, an author who is also a professor at LSU.

[edit] Published works

• What Gets Into Us (2006, Univ. of Mississippi) ISBN 1578067723
• Dream State (1998, Univ. of Mississippi), ISBN 1578060974
• A Period of Confinement (1987, Putnam) ISBN 0060971088
• The Winnebago Mysteries (1982, Fiction Collective). ISBN 0914590693

[edit] External links

• Author's website
• Works by or about Moira Crone in libraries (WorldCat catalog)