biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1952– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She grew up in St Louis, and studied at Vassar and the University of Iowa, where she attended the writers' workshop. An early short story, Lily, won the O Henry Award, later appearing in a collection, The Age of Grief (1987). Many of her stories are set on farms. A Thousand Acres (1992), a modern retelling of the King Lear story set in a farming community in Iowa, won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award. Moo (1995) is a satire on the American agribusiness, while the novel Horse Heaven (2000) probes the world of horses and horse-racing. |
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