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Harriet Scott Chessman

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born

January 16, 1951 in Newark, Ohio, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.harrietchessman.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Arts & Photography

influences

Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and more. I think I've been influence...more

member since

April 2009

About this author

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I am a fiction writer in the Bay Area, author of three novels: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Someone Not Really Her Mother, and Ohio Angels.

I taught at Yale University from 1980-1991, and since then I've taught at various places, including Bread Loaf School of English.

My greatest pleasures include family and friends, reading, walking, swimming (especially in Vermont ponds and lakes!), theater, movies, and of course more reading.

Note: I read books that I love!! so my ratings will always be high.

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Books by Harriet Scott Chessman

Average rating: 3.57 · 636 ratings · 117 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper 3.62 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Someone Not Really Her Mother: A Novel 3.31 avg rating — 108 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ohio Angels 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lydia Cassat lisant le journal du matin 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Public Is Invited to Dance: Representation, the Body, and Dialogue in Gertrude Stein 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1989	My rating:
	Lidya Cassatt Lisant Le Journal Du Matin by Harriet Scott Chessman (Goodreads Author), Mirèse Akar (Traduction) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	Ohio Angels by Harriet Scott Chessman (Goodreads Author), Norma Lane (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Literary Angels 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Lydia Cassat Leyendo El Periodico Matinal 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:

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Someone Not Really Her Mother (Literature & Fiction)

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Description: Seven woven stories about Hannah Pearl and her daughter and granddaughters. Hannah lives in Connecticut now, near her family, yet as her short term memory fades, early memories of her escape from France in 1940 rise to the surface in puzzling fragments.

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper (Literature & Fiction)

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Description: A novel about Mary Cassatt's paintings of her sister Lydia.

Harriet is Currently Reading

Harriet is currently reading:

At Freddie's

by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Dissemblings: Still More Short Stories

by S.P. Elledge

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Harriet gave to: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro read in January, 2011	My rating:
A beautifully written novel-in-stories. Amazing voice. Wonderful, how the relationship between this stepmother and stepdaughter shifts and grows. You can't beat Munro for psychological observation and the careful, rather cool peeling away of layer up...more
Mar 03, 2012 10:58am · see review
Harriet gave to: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro read in January, 2011	My rating:
This is a brilliant novel, with a voice so richly and fully realized, I am at Ishiguro's feet. I love the slow unfolding of the past, and I love the Jamesian recognition reserved for this limited, poignant character in the last few pages. This time t...more
Mar 03, 2012 10:55am · see review
Harriet gave to: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster read in January, 2011	My rating:
A great delight, and a fresh experience, in spite of the fact that this is about the 7th time I've read this wonderfully wry, perceptive story about Lucy Honeychurch and her choice of marriage partner -- which is in Forster's world, a choice of how t...more
Mar 03, 2012 10:49am · see review
Harriet gave to: The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard read in January, 2011	My rating:
This novel has a wonderfully rich sensibility and voice --- I'm astonished at the sheer deftness and chutzpah of the way Hazzard handles omniscient narration. I doubt that this book is for everyone, because it has the appearance of wandering from cha...more
Mar 03, 2012 10:43am · see review
Harriet gave to: Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee read in January, 2011	My rating:
I was stunned by this book. It's rare for me to feel so absorbed in a fictional world. The world in this novel is frightening, dystopian, and yet wonderfully, humorously, satirically, and strangely recognizable -- an outpost in an Empire, where peopl...more
Mar 03, 2012 10:29am · see review
Harriet is currently reading: At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald	My rating:
Mar 03, 2012 10:17am
Harriet gave to: Summertime by J.M. Coetzee read in October, 2011	My rating:
I love the idea of this book -- how it's right on the edge between memoir and fiction. It's very clever, to have this interview format -- i.e. to create fictional "interviews" with a handful of people in one's life, and to let them tell their story a...more
Oct 27, 2011 08:58am · see review
Harriet marked as to-read: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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