Karen Russell (author)
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| Born | July 10, 1981 Miami, Florida |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University, Columbia University |
Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981, Miami, Florida) is an American author.
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[edit] Life
Russell received a B.A. from Northwestern University in 2003, and graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University in 2006.
She was Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English at Williams College.[1]
Her stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope.[2]
She was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at a November 2009 ceremony,[3] for her first book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Her second book and first novel, Swamplandia!, about a shabby amusement park set in the Everglades, was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.[4] It was also included in the New York Times' "10 Best Books of 2011."[5]
She is the recipient of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, for Spring 2012.[6]
She won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011 for her book St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.[7] She is currently writer-in-residence at Bard College.[8]
[edit] Works
- St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Knopf. 2006. ISBN 9780307263988. http://books.google.com/books?id=A59ezuum_LMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=karen+russell&hl=en&ei=rsj3TeCtBciq0AHIy9S4Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.; Random House Digital, Inc. 2007, ISBN 9780307276674
- Swamplandia!. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011. ISBN 9780307263995. http://books.google.com/books?id=r6BtrMH7j-MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=karen+russell&hl=en&ei=rsj3TeCtBciq0AHIy9S4Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.; Random House Digital, Inc., 2011, ISBN 9780307263995
[edit] References
- ^ "Williams College Welcomes Seven Spring Semester Visiting Professors", March 10, 2009
- ^ "Karen Russell". August 2004. http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=70463. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
- ^ http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35.html
- ^ "ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION ANNOUNCES 2011 LONGLIST". http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/prize.html. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2011"
- ^ "The American Academy Announces the 2011-2012 Class of Fellows"
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[edit] External links
- Random House Author Page
- 2011 podcast interview at The Bat Segundo Show
- "A Conversation with Karen Russell about her first novel, Swamplandia!", bookbrouse
- "Interview with Karen Russell: Author of St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves", In the Labyrinth, June 16, 2010
- "20 Under 40: Q. & A.Karen Russell", The New Yorker, June 14, 2010
- Karen Russell at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
