Lorrie Moore

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in Glens Falls, New York, The United States

January 13, 1957

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Lorrie Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1957. She attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where she tutored on an Indian reservation, and was editor of the university literary magazine and, at age 19, won Seventeen Magazine’s Fiction Contest. After graduating summa cum laude, she worked in New York for two years before going on to received a Masters in Fine Arts from Cornell University.

Over the course of the last two decades Lorrie Moore has earned a place among the finest writers in this country by exploring the lives of modern women and men, many of them in the Midwest, as they confront the often absurd indignities of ordinary life, most particularly the quest for love and companionship. Her short stories have char ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 70,305 ratings · 8,258 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Birds of America 4.11 avg rating — 12,562 ratings — published 1998 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Gate at the Stairs 3.15 avg rating — 15,822 ratings — published 2009 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self-Help 4.20 avg rating — 8,955 ratings — published 1985 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? 3.78 avg rating — 6,395 ratings — published 1994 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bark 3.57 avg rating — 6,924 ratings — published 2014 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like Life 4.11 avg rating — 4,055 ratings — published 1990 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anagrams 3.95 avg rating — 3,378 ratings — published 1986 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2004 by Lorrie Moore (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 750 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Stories 4.42 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How To Become A Writer 4.03 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Lorrie Moore

“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

1898 likes

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

1102 likes

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

tags: love, relationships, sarcasm

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The 2009 Goodreads Choice Awards: FICTION

The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)

1145 votes 17.2%

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

669 votes 10.1%

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)

328 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls A Novel by Lisa See (Goodreads Author)

323 votes 4.9%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

311 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

299 votes 4.5%

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

277 votes 4.2%

Fool A Novel by Christopher Moore

242 votes 3.6%

The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Goodreads Author)

234 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

230 votes 3.5%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet A Novel by Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)

225 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked A Novel by Nick Hornby

213 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

194 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

149 votes 2.2%

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

146 votes 2.2%

South of Broad by Pat Conroy

145 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman

143 votes 2.2%

Let the Great World Spin A Novel by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)

136 votes 2.0%

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

136 votes 2.0%

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

129 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn A Novel by Colm Tóibín

120 votes 1.8%

Drood by Dan Simmons

110 votes 1.7%

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt

108 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

104 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

99 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf (Goodreads Author)

91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo

80 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

71 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply A Novel by Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author)

70 votes 1.1%

The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (Goodreads Author)

62 votes 0.9%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker

62 votes 0.9%

6651 total votes

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