Life
Lynn Freed was born and grew up in Durban, South Africa. She came to New York as a graduate student, where she earned both an M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Columbia University. She has taught Literature and Creative Writing at Bennington College in Vermont, St. Mary's College in Moraga, California, the University of California in Berkeley, the University of Oregon in Eugene, the University of Montana in Missoula and the University of Texas in Austin.
Freed is the author of six novels, including "The Servants' Quarters", "House of Women", "The Mirror", "The Bungalow", "Home Ground" and "Friends of the Family". She also has a collection of short fiction, "The Curse of the Appropriate Man", and a collection of essays, "Reading, Writing, & Leaving Home: Life on the Page". Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, Tin House, The Michigan Quarterly, Vogue Magazine, The Georgia Review, Mirabella, House Beautiful, House and Garden, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Ploughshares, and Newsday, among others, and have been broadly anthologized. Her work is also widely translated.
In 2002, Lynn Freed was awarded the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Guggenheim Foundation, The Camargo Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Lannan Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation. She has won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction, and her short fiction has been recommended in "Best American Short Stories" and the "O'Henry Awards: Prize Stories". Four of her novels and her collection of stories have appeared on The New York Times "Notable Books of the Year" list. In 2011 she won a PEN/O. Henry Prize for her short story, "Sunshine".
She is currently a professor of English at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches in both undergraduate and graduate programs. She lives in Northern California.
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