Amy Bloom

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January 01, 1953 in The United States

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http://www.amybloom.com/

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Amy Bloom is the author of "Come to Me," a National Book Award finalist; "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You," nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; "Love Invents Us"; and "Normal." Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, and many other anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Bloom teaches creative writing at Yale University.

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Books by Amy Bloom

Average rating: 3.57 · 14,380 ratings · 2,370 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Away 3.31 avg rating — 5,717 ratings — published 1996 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Where the God of Love Hangs Out 3.47 avg rating — 1,356 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	My rating:
	A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You 3.86 avg rating — 1,236 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Come to Me 4.01 avg rating — 1,125 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Love Invents Us 3.58 avg rating — 1,040 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Amy Bloom, Sigrid Estrada (Photographer), J.K. Lambert (Designed by) 3.50 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Between Here and Here 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ploughshares (Vol. 30 Nos. 2&3) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Persuasion by Jane Austen, Amy Bloom (Introduction), Audrey Bilger (Notes) 4.11 avg rating — 104,591 ratings — published 1817 — 150 editions	My rating:
	It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters by Andrea J. Buchanan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carolyn Alessio (Contributor), Kim Fischer (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Amy Bloom

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: love

95 people liked it

“Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

tags: confessions , memory , nostalgia

16 people liked it

“Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: women

15 people liked it

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