Sandra Novack
 |
Sandra Novack | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Vermont College of Fine Arts |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Website | |
| sandranovack | |
Sandra Novack (born 1972) is an American writer of a novel and short stories. Her debut novel, Precious, was a Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2009.[1]
Biography
Novack was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Joanne Novack, a court systems operator at Lehigh County Courthouse, and Joseph Novack, a former millwright at Bethlehem Steel. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2003.[2] Her short stories have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Descant, and Chattahoochee Review.
Stephen King named Novack's story "Memphis" a "Distinguished Story" in The Best American Short Stories in 2007.[3] She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, her nonfiction work “Hunk” was nominated as a runner-up for the 2006 Iowa Review Award,[4] and she is a recipient of the 2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship[5] and 2011 Illinois Arts Council grant.[6] Her short story collection, Everyone But You, was published by Random House in 2011,[7] and she is working on a new novel. Her work has been translated to Dutch.[8] Novack lives in Oak Park, Illinois.[9]
Works
Novels
- Precious (2009)
Short stories
- Everyone But You (2011)
References
- ^ Booklist top 10 first novels of 2009, http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=3801710.
- ^ Siegel, S. Valley native returns to roots for novel. The Morning Call, March 15, 2009, http://articles.mcall.com/2009-03-15/features/4329525_1_novel-stories-writing
- ^ Kinchen, D. Debut novel 'Precious' explores complex issues of marriage, children, friends and neighbors. The Huntington News, March 15, 2009, http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090315-kinchen-columnsbookreview.html
- ^ 2006 Iowa Review Award announcements Archived 2010-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Christopher Isherwood Foundation".
- ^ "FY11 Individual Artist Support Initiative Recipients | Illinois Arts Council Agency".
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400066810 [bare URL]
- ^ Novack, S. 2009. De Terugkeer (Trans. J. Dekker), Boekerij
- ^ "The Christopher Isherwood Foundation".
External links
- Official website
- Random House profile
- buzzsugar.com interview
- Baton Rouge Advocate interview
- Curled Up With a Good Book interview
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
   | This article about an American short story writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Articles with bare URLs for citations from October 2022
- 1972 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- Novelists from Pennsylvania
- Writers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- American short story writer stubs
- American novelist, 1970s birth stubs