Lorrie Moore

Born

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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Lorrie Moore’s books

Average rating: 3.78 · 81,373 ratings · 9,335 reviews · 68 distinct works • Similar authors

	Birds of America 4.11 avg rating — 14,136 ratings — published 1998 — 33 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 3.16 avg rating — 17,024 ratings — published 2009 — 43 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 4.19 avg rating — 10,532 ratings — published 1985 — 25 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? 3.80 avg rating — 8,277 ratings — published 1994 — 37 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 3.58 avg rating — 7,885 ratings — published 2014 — 35 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 4.10 avg rating — 4,594 ratings — published 1990 — 29 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 3.94 avg rating — 3,970 ratings — published 1986 — 27 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) 3.94 avg rating — 783 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 — 761 ratings — published 2008	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
	Terrific Mother 3.67 avg rating — 581 ratings — 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

1930 likes

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

1081 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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Best Fiction

The Help

1140 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)

664 votes 10.1%

Her Fearful Symmetry

326 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)

321 votes 4.9%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

311 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)

298 votes 4.5%

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)

276 votes 4.2%

Fool

239 votes 3.6%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)

230 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

227 votes 3.4%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

225 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked

209 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone

193 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger

148 votes 2.2%

Pygmy

145 votes 2.2%

South of Broad

144 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters

141 votes 2.1%

Let the Great World Spin

136 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You

133 votes 2.0%

Little Bee

127 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn

120 votes 1.8%

Drood

110 votes 1.7%

The Children's Book

107 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife

104 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs

98 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence

91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic

78 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

71 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply

70 votes 1.1%

The School of Essential Ingredients

62 votes 0.9%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

62 votes 0.9%

6606 total votes

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