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About Lorrie Moore
American writer, critic, and essayist
Lorrie Moore is an American writer, critic, and essayist best known for her short stories. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing. Her fiction has brought her major awards, and her work is widely associated with the short story form. Alongside her writing, she has maintained a long teaching career in creative writing, and her essays and criticism add to a body of work shaped by close attention to language and form.
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- “You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.”Lorrie Moore
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- “It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.”Lorrie Moore
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- “Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.”Lailah Gifty Akita
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- “The President will not rest until every school is open five days a week. That is our goal.”Jen Psaki
- “It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laug…”Carolyn Parkhurst
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Books by Lorrie Moore
A Gate at the Stairs
2010
Bark
2014
Who will run the frog hospital?
1994
See what can be done
2018
Birds of America
1998