Sarah Manguso
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female
place of birth
Massachusetts, The United States
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Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry
about this author
Sarah Manguso (b. 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), was reviewed by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and named a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Her poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, and twice in the Best American Poetry series. She was the Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton in 2003–2004, and has been awarded fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Yaddo, a...more
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One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies by Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth avg rating 4.12 — 266 ratings — published 2007 |
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The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso avg rating 3.91 — 159 ratings — published 2008 2 editions |
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The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems by Sarah Manguso avg rating 4.17 — 93 ratings — published 2002 |
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Siste Viator by Sarah Manguso avg rating 3.88 — 88 ratings — published 2006 |
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Hard to Admit, Harder to Escape by Sarah Manguso avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2008 |
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Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books by Sarah Manguso avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2004 |
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Sarah Manguso on tour for the book "The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir"
Author appearance, November 16, 2009 06:30PM
Alachua County Library, 401 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL, The United States
See Sarah Manguso on tour promoting the book "The Two Kinds of Decay: A Mem...more
Author appearance, November 16, 2009 06:30PM
Alachua County Library, 401 E University Avenue, Gainesville, FL, The United States
See Sarah Manguso on tour promoting the book "The Two Kinds of Decay: A Mem...more
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"If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it."
— Sarah Manguso (The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir)
— Sarah Manguso (The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir)
"Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do."
— Sarah Manguso
— Sarah Manguso












