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Pam Houston
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
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Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis. Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. She lives in Colorado at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
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avg rating: 3.91
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| 13 distinct works
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Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories by Pam Houston avg rating 3.97 — 975 ratings — published 1992 9 editions |
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Sight Hound: A Novel by Pam Houston avg rating 3.98 — 406 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston avg rating 3.83 — 350 ratings — published 1998 9 editions |
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A Little More About Me by Pam Houston avg rating 3.78 — 205 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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Men Before 10 A.M. by Pam Houston avg rating 3.64 — 22 ratings — published 1996 |
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The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales of Catastrophe by Pam Houston avg rating 3.32 — 22 ratings — published 2005 |
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Women on Hunting by Pam Houston avg rating 3.67 — 12 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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A Rough Guide to the Heart by Pam Houston avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives by Pam Houston, Megan McMorris (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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Bei Cowboys werd ich schwach. Stories. ( Frauen). by Pam Houston avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1993 |
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"I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves. "
— Pam Houston
— Pam Houston
"'Do you write novels?' I said.
'Novels, Lord no,' she said. 'I can't even stay married.'"
— Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)
'Novels, Lord no,' she said. 'I can't even stay married.'"
— Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)
"Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing."
— Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories)
— Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories)
