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Lorrie Moore


Born
in Glens Falls, New York, The United States
January 13, 1957

Genre
Literature & Fiction


LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Average rating: 3.76 · 113,681 ratings · 14,821 reviews · 72 distinct works • Similar authors
Birds of America: Stories
4.08 avg rating — 16,947 ratings — published 1998 — 44 editions
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Self-Help
4.11 avg rating — 16,251 ratings — published 1985 — 47 editions
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Who Will Run the Frog Hospi...
3.83 avg rating — 16,147 ratings — published 1994 — 58 editions
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A Gate at the Stairs
3.18 avg rating — 19,024 ratings — published 2009
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Bark
3.60 avg rating — 9,148 ratings — published 2014 — 37 editions
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I Am Homeless If This Is No...
3.27 avg rating — 7,349 ratings — published 2023 — 23 editions
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Like Life: Stories
4.06 avg rating — 5,759 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Anagrams
3.91 avg rating — 5,210 ratings — published 1986 — 32 editions
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4.12 avg rating — 1,363 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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Terrific Mother
3.52 avg rating — 1,481 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore
tags: novels, short-stories, writing
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“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
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“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life: Stories
tags: love, relationships, sarcasm
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