Lydia Davis Writer

Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

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Lydia Davis
Birth dateJuly 15, 1947
Birth place
Northampton Massachusetts
Education
Barnard College

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Career start1976
genre
Short story
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External resources

  1. http://bombsite.com/issues/60/articles/2086
  2. http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/lydia-davis-reading-goodbye-louise
  3. http://thecoffinfactory.com/fiction-negative-emotions-by-lydia-davis
  4. http://thegiganticmag.com/magazine/articleDetail.php?p=articleDetail&id=159
  5. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Davis.php
  6. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200801/?read=interview_davis
  7. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/29/qa_with_lydia_davis
  8. http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_516.html
  9. http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007_f_davis_interv.html
  10. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=181391