Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore (Jan 13, 1957) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories. Moore's novels are; Anagrams (1986), who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) and A Gate at the Stairs (2009). Moore has written a chil
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Lorrie Moore (Jan 13, 1957) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories. Moore's novels are; Anagrams (1986), who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) and A Gate at the Stairs (2009). Moore has written a children's book entitled The Forgotten Helper. Moore won the 1998 O. Henry Award for her short story "People Like That Are the Only People Here," published in The New Yorker on January 27, 1997. In 1999, Moore was named as the winner of The Irish Times International Fiction Prize for Birds of America. In 2004, she was selected as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, for outstanding achievement in that genre. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006 and is a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
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