Elinor Lipman

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Elinor Lipman (born October 16, 1950)[1] is an American novelist and short story writer.

Biography

Born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Lipman graduated from Simmons College where she studied journalism. She lives in western Massachusetts and Manhattan, and received the New England Book award for fiction in 2001. Her novel Then She Found Me was adapted into a 2008 feature film, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick. Her book of rhyming political tweets,[2] Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus was published in August 2012 from Beacon Press. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and Salon.com. The View from Penthouse B ( her 10th novel) and I Can't Complain: (all too) Personal Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) were published in 2013. She was the Elizabeth Drew Professor of Creative Writing at Smith College in 2011-2012. Her poem, "I Bought This Pattern Book Last Spring" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2013. She writes a weekly column, "I Might Complain," for Parade.com.

Bibliography

Nonfiction
Novels
Story collections
Essay collections
  • 2013 I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays" (ISBN 054757620X)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Way-Men-Act-Elinor-Lipman/9780671748418-item.html?pticket=j43ntr45ynhkdpmonr5e3j55nAPgS8Aotms3AMoYcEYhwLl3nAM%3d
  2. ↑ http://grubdaily.org/?p=5795

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