Lily King的作品
Lily King grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in English Literature f rom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She has taught English and Creative Writing at several universities and high schools in this country and abroad. Lily's first novel, THE PLEASING HOUR (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, THE ENGLISH TEACHER, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. FATHER OF THE RAIN, her third novel, was published in July, 2010. A few weeks after publication, it won the New England Book Award for Fiction. It is a New York Times Editor's Choice, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, an Indie Next Selection, and on O the Oprah Magazine's 2010 Summer Reading List. Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award. Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Glimmer Train, as well as in several anthologies.
Lily King grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in English Literature f rom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She has taught English and Creative Writing at several universities and high schools in this country and abroad. Lily's first novel, THE PLEASING HOUR (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, THE ENGLISH TEACHER, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. FATHER OF THE RAIN, her third novel, was published in July, 2010. A few weeks after publication, it won the New England Book Award for Fiction. It is a New York Times Editor's Choice, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, an Indie Next Selection, and on O the Oprah Magazine's 2010 Summer Reading List. Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award. Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Glimmer Train, as well as in several anthologies.