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Amy Hempel


Born
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
December 14, 1951

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

Influences
Gordon Lish, Grace Paley, Barry Hannah ...more


Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College. Hempel was a former student of Gordon Lish, who eventually helped her publish her first collection of short stories. Hempel has been published in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bomb. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Ambassador Book Award in 2007, the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2008, and the Pen/Malamud Award for short fiction in 2009. ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 36,600 ratings · 3,836 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors
The Collected Stories
4.25 avg rating — 7,310 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
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Reasons to Live
4.13 avg rating — 3,412 ratings — published 1985 — 15 editions
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Sing to It: New Stories
3.63 avg rating — 3,095 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions
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Tumble Home: A Novella and ...
4.03 avg rating — 1,473 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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The Dog of the Marriage: St...
3.99 avg rating — 1,449 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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At the Gates of the Animal ...
4.16 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 1990
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In The Cemetery Where Al Jo...
4.11 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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Unleashed: Poems by Writers...
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4.04 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions
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The Best Small Fictions 2017
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“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel
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“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories
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“I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories
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