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Kathryn Davis

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Kathryn Davis is an award-winning American novelist.

Davis has taught at Skidmore College, and is now senior fiction writer in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

She is a recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006.

Davis lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her husband, the novelist and essayist Eric Zencey.

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Books by Kathryn Davis

Average rating: 3.45 · 2,356 ratings · 524 reviews · 14 distinct works

	The Thin Place 3.26 avg rating — 749 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Versailles: A Novel 3.35 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hell: A Novel 3.27 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Walking Tour by Kathryn Davis, Langdon Davis 3.20 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf: A Novel 3.66 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Labrador 3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Endless Sky 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Dakotas: At the Wind's Edge 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	At the Wind's Edge 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Gregory Maguire (Foreword), Joyelle McSweeney (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago in the dark northern woods for instance) with universal radiance. Faithless sons, wars and typhoons, fields of blood, greed and knives: our literature's full of such stories. And yet suppose for an instant that it wasn't the complacent father but his bored daughter who was the Prime Mover; suppose that what came first wasn't an appetite for drama but the urge to awaken it. Mightn't we then permit a single summer in the lives of two bored girls to represent an essential stage in the history of the universe?”
― Kathryn Davis

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“You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.”
― Kathryn Davis

tags: meaning , perception , perspective , size , universe

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“Of course if a person looked at his life from above, he could see the whole thing for what it was; he'd only feel lost while he was living it, when he still hadn't figured out that it was in fact a maze and that both the way in and the way out led to the same enormous empty place surrounding it. (From The Thin Place)”
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