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Sigrid Nunez is an United Sates author of five novels including her debut, A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel (1996, ISBN 0-06-092684-8), Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, For Rouenna, and The Last of Her Kind. She often addresses class and violence in her novels. She chronicles a time period, such as the 1960's, socially, politically, and intimately in the eyes of women, and is perceptive about character and opinions. She is a creative writing teacher at Columbia University. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring, 2005. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature.
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- A Feather on the Breath of God
- Naked Sleeper
- Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
- For Rouenna
- The Last of her Kind
