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Stephanie Grant

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born

March 30, 1962 in Stoughton, Massachusetts, The United States

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genre

Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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Stephanie Grant’s first novel, The Passion of Alice, was published in 1995 by Houghton Mifflin, and was nominated for Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Map of Ireland, which was published by Scribner in March 2008, is a contemporary retelling of Huck Finn that places female sexuality and friendship at the center of one of our foundational myths about race.

Her writing has received numerous awards including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Formerly Writer-in-Residence at Mount Holyoke College, she is currently Visiting Writer at the Franklin...more

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Books by Stephanie Grant

Average rating: 3.31 · 338 ratings · 58 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Passion of Alice 3.39 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Map of Ireland: A Novel 3.20 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Der Heilige Hunger: Die Geschichte Einer Magersüchtigen 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:

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“I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.”
― Stephanie Grant, The Passion of Alice

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“At first when you're learning a foreign language, what seems strange is that a different set of words exists for the things you know. But then, after a while, what seems strange is that so many words are the same, that two entirely different peoples, an ocean apart, would choose the exact same sounds. In the end, what causes the most trouble are the words that sound the same but mean different things: déception, nostalgie, grâce.”
― Stephanie Grant, Map of Ireland: A Novel

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“Listen for what you identify with, not for what makes you different.”
― Stephanie Grant, The Passion of Alice

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