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Larry Woiwode


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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir


Larry Woiwode was designated Poet Laureate of North Dakota by the Legislative Assembly in 1995. He served as Writer in Residence at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973-74; and from 1983-88 was a tenured professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and director of its Creative Writing Program.

Larry Woiwode’s fiction has appeared in Antaeus, Antioch Review, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Harpers, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Partisan Review, and many other publications; his poetry has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Poetry North, Tar River Poetry, Transatlantic Review, Works in Progress, and other publications and venues, including broadsides and anthologies.

His novels and his memoirs are wide ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 878 ratings · 138 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors
Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A ...
4.15 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1975 — 15 editions
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The Invention of Lefse: A C...
3.06 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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What I'm Going to Do, I Think
3.62 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1969 — 14 editions
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What I Think I Did: A Seaso...
3.54 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Words Made Fresh: Essays on...
3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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A Step from Death
3.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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Born Brothers: A Novel
3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions
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Words for Readers and Write...
3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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The Neumiller Stories
4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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Silent Passengers
3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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“Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.”
― Larry Woiwode
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