Sigrid Nunez

Author profile

born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.sigridnunez.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction

About this author

edit data

(Photograph ©Marion Ettlinger, 2005)

Sigrid Nunez is an author of five novels including her debut, A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel (1996, ISBN 0-06-092684-8), Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, For Rouenna, and The Last of Her Kind. She often addresses class and violence in her novels. She chronicles a time period, such as the 1960's, socially, politically, and intimately in the eyes of women, and is perceptive about character and opinions. She is a creative writing teacher at Columbia University. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring, 2005. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundati...more

combine editions
Books by Sigrid Nunez

Average rating: 3.48 · 1,862 ratings · 413 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The Last of Her Kind 3.56 avg rating — 887 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Salvation City 2.95 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel 3.71 avg rating — 203 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Sempre Susan: A Memoir Of Susan Sontag 3.60 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	For Rouenna: A Novel 3.71 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Mitz The Marmoset of Bloomsbury 3.53 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Naked Sleeper 3.16 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor), Marilyn Chin, Lawrence Chua 3.91 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

More books by Sigrid Nunez…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Sigrid Nunez

“Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.

I like to remember when I was one of them, or to pretend that I am one of them still, sensing that restless man at my back and half turning, no, turning all the way, open-armed, saying, Pick me, pick me.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind

1 person liked it

Polls

Vote for the June Group Read (1900-1940)

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

6 votes, 21.4%

Passing by Nella Larsen

6 votes, 21.4%

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

6 votes, 21.4%

Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez

5 votes, 17.9%

Journey without Maps by Graham Greene

3 votes, 10.7%

Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

2 votes, 7.1%

28 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Virginia Wool...: resurrections of Bloomsbury	5	39	Apr 11, 2010 10:54am
The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)	2793	888	Nov 30, 2010 09:03pm
Reading with Style: RwS Completed Tasks	927	213	Dec 01, 2010 06:41am
Challenge: 50 Books: Mandie's 50	99	227	Dec 29, 2010 06:52am
The Novella Club: Nominate a novella for March 15/April 14	14	29	Feb 27, 2011 04:49pm
The Novella Club: Nominate a novella for May 15 thru June 14	9	40	Apr 24, 2011 06:24pm

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Sigrid to Goodreads.

Sigrid's Fans (20)

Sigrid Nunez

Author profile

combine editionsBooks by Sigrid Nunez

Upcoming Events

Quotes by Sigrid Nunez

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

combine editions
Books by Sigrid Nunez