Lucia Perillo (1958–2016)
Auteur de Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories
A propos de l'auteur
Lucia Perillo was born in Manhattan, New York on September 30, 1958. She received a bachelor's degree in wildlife management from McGill University in 1979 and went to work for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. She received a master's degree in English from Syracuse University while afficher plus working seasonally at Mount Rainer National Park. She taught at Syracuse University, Southern Illinois University, Saint Martin's University, and Warren Wilson College. She was a poet and essayist. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1988 and published her first book, Dangerous Life, a year later. Her collections of poetry include Inseminating the Elephant, which won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems. She was also the author of a book of essays entitled I've Heard the Vultures Singing and a short story collection entitled Happiness Is a Chemical on the Brain. In 2000, she received a MacArthur Genius fellowship. She died on October 16, 2016 at the age of 58. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Lucia Perillo
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Perillo, Lucia Maria
- Date de naissance
- 1958-09-30
- Date de décès
- 2016-10-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Olympia, Washington, USA
- Études
- McGill University (1979)
Syracuse University (MA|English1986) - Professions
- therapist
poet
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 373
- Popularité
- #64,664
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 25
- Favoris
- 1
-"Durable Goods"
-"The Life Opaque"
-"Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers"
-"On the Sunken Fish Processor Tenyo Maru"
-"The Professor Wonders If His Daughter Will Understand Tragedy"
-"The Roots of Pessimism in Model Rocketry, The Fallacy of Its Premise"
-"Retablo with Multiple Sclerosis and Saints"
-"Elephant" (wildly jealous she saw Raymond Carver read)
-"July 4, 1966"
-"Needles"
-"For My Washer and Dryer"
-"Archaeolgy of the Bed"
-"On the Female Serial Killers"
-"Barbie Tells Her Biography"
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