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Elizabeth Harris

Born

Fort Worth, The United States

Website

http://www.elizabethharriswriter.com

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Winner of the 2014 Gival Press Fiction Award, Elizabeth Harris is a native Texan who grew up in Ft. Worth. She won the John Simmons Prize, awarded by University of Iowa Press, for her first book, "The Ant Generator", a collection of stories praised for their “sense of wonder, comedy and acid-etched existentialism.” Those and uncollected stories appeared in Antioch Review, Epoch, Chicago Review, North American Review, Shenandoah, and other magazines, and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South, Best of Wind, The Iowa Award, and Literary Austin.

“Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman" is her second book, coming October, 2015. She was a runner up in a pr ...more

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Elizabeth Harris's Blog

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A Book That Changed My Life

I was in Texas at the time but a very long way from writing a novel about a woman whose husband can’t see her around another man, two violent crimes including an ambiguous rape, and the PTSD that conditions her life afterwards. I was maybe four.

The book was a worn, hard-back children’s book, about an inch thick, bound in dark blue cloth and frayed along the edges. It was *Cobi Camel,* by Nell S...

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Elizabeth Harris’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 24 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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 Ant Generator liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1991 — 2 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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