Lydia Davis lives in upstate New York and teaches at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Bard College. She is the author of a novel, The End of the Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and two collections of short stories, Break It Down (FSG) and Almost No Memory (FSG). She is the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award (1988), the French-American Foundation Translation Award (1992), a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Fiction, and most recently was honored for her translation work with the French Insigna of the Order of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions and McSweeney's, and has been collected in the Best American Short Stories of 1997 (edited by Annie Proulx), the KGB Bar Reader, among others. Davis has just finished a new translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, to be published in the spring. Almost No Memory will be reissued by FSG in paperback to coincide with the release of Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. Her first two books, Break It Down and The End of the Story, are available from Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books. Lydia's homepage is http://www.previewport.com/Home/davis.html |
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