Mary Morrissy
Mary Morrissy (born 1957 Dublin) is an Irish writer.
Life
Morrissy was educated at the Rathmines School of Journalism. She worked in Australia, and as a sub-editor of The Irish Press.[1] She taught creative writing for the University of Arkansas, and University of Iowa creative writing summer programmes. She was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library,[2] for her work-in-progress, The Duchess, an imagined autobiography of Bella O'Casey, the sister of Seán O'Casey.[3] She lives in Dublin.[4]
In 2008 - 09, she was Jenny McKean Moore "Writer in Washington" at George Washington University, Washington DC.[5]
Awards
She won a Hennessy Award for short fiction in 1984, a Lannan Literary Award in 1995, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 1996.
Works
Short Stories
- A Lazy Eye, London, Jonathan Cape/ New York, Scribner, 1993, ISBN 0-09-970141-3
- New Irish Short Stories, ed.Joseph O'Connor, Faber and Faber, 2011, ISBN 0-571-25527-2
Novels
- Mother of Pearl, Scribner, 1995/Jonathan Cape, 1996, ISBN 0-09-958251-1
- The Pretender, Jonathan Cape, 2000, ISBN 0-09-928367-0
References
- ↑ http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/m/Morrissy,M/life.htm
- ↑ http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/pastfellows.html
- ↑ http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/morrissy.html
- ↑ http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/pages/authors/author.asp?AuthorID=15
- ↑ http://google.com/search?q=cache:KgWQKJuBkRUJ:www.unizd.hr/Portals/36/doc/Morrissy%2520Translation%2520Award%2520UNIZD.doc+Mary+Morrissy&cd=35&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
External links
- "A Conversation with Mary Morrissy". The Dublin Quarterly. Sept-Dec '07. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - CANDICE RODD (14 March 1993). "BOOK REVIEW / Written on the body: 'A Lazy Eye' - Mary Morrissy". The Independent.
- Patrick McGrath (August 11, 1996). "Marked Women". The New York Times.
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