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Lydia Davis

Books by Lydia Davis

Born: 1947

Nationality: American

Gender: female

Catalog: 12 books

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.

  1. 1Cover of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
  2. 2Cover of The End of the Story
  3. 3Cover of Almost No Memory
  4. 4Cover of Break It Down

    Break It Down

    Lydia Davis · 1986 · 0 lists

  5. 5Cover of Can't and Won't
  6. 6Cover of Essays One
  7. 7Cover of EXTENDED FRAMES
  8. 8Cover of Ni puedo ni quiero
  9. 9Cover of Our Strangers: Stories
  10. 10Cover of Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
  11. 11Cover of The Cows
  12. 12Cover of Varieties of Disturbance

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