Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received numerous grants and awards, from among others: the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.
Books by Lorrie Moore
Terrific Mother
Published: June 2019
Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.
See What Can Be Done
Published: May 2019
The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America's most beloved writers.
See What Can Be Done
Published: May 2018
The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America's most beloved writers.
Self-Help
Published: April 2015
Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics.
Bark
Published: February 2015
A literary moment and celebration - a new collection by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America.
Bark
Published: March 2014
A literary moment and celebration - a new collection by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Published: November 2010
The brilliantly funny and sharply observant novel from one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation.
Anagrams
Published: June 2010
In Anagrams, Lorrie Moore deftly weaves a complex plot with sensitivity and razor-sharp wit.
Like Life
Published: June 2010
In this brilliant collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear of closeness.
Self-Help
Published: June 2010
This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How to be an Other Woman', 'How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)', 'How to Become a Writer', 'The Kid's Guide to Divorce'.
Birds of America
Published: June 2010
Birds of America by the hugely talented Lorrie Moore is perhaps her most stunning collection of short stories yet, exploring the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane.
A Gate at the Stairs
Published: April 2010
Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of modern America.
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
Published: June 2009
A wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation.
