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Lydia Davis

From Wikipedia: Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY.

She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. In fact some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between philosophy, poetry and short story.

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American writer

Born 15 Jul 1947

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    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1998 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A philosophical investigation into theodical debate in a post-holocaust era

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  • Cover of: HarperTrue Life - a Short Read - Raw: The Diary of an Anorexic

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American writer

Born 15 Jul 1947

Subjects

Fiction, short stories (single author), Children's fiction, American Short stories, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Anthropologists, Authors, french, Biography, Fiction, general, French Poets, Proust, marcel, 1871-1922, Surrealism (Literature), American fiction, Authors, biography, Authors, correspondence, France, biography, Poetry, collections, Poets, biography, Religion, Short stories, Surrealism (literature), American Experimental fiction, American fiction (collections), 20th century, American literature, Amerikanisches Englisch

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Great Britain, United States

Time

20th century, 20ème siècle, Victoria, 1837-1901

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  • Davis, Lydia, 1947-
  • LYDIA DAVIS

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January 13, 2025 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
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