Laura Furman was born in New York, and educated in New York City public schools and at Bennington College. Her first story appeared in The New Yorker in 1976, and since then her work has been published in many magazines, including Yale Review,... Read full bio
Q. What is your motto or maxim?A. Wherever you go, there you are.Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?A. Generosity, honesty, modestyQ. What trait is most noticeable about you?A. PersistenceQ. Which living person do you most admire?A. Morris Dees, Founder and Chief Trial Attorney of the Southern Poverty Law CenterQ. What are your most overused words or phrases?A. ThenLearn more about Laura Furman
...true romance and a True Romance, and Manuel Muñoz has the wisdom to know the difference." — Laura Furman, author of The Mother Who Stayed and series editor of the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories...
...The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011: The Best Stories of the Year edited and with an introduction by Laura Furman and the prize jury selections by A.M. Homes, Manuel Munoz, and Christine Schutt (Anchor Books, $15) Short stories are much like literary...
...31 BN.com Price Serena Ron Rash $12.65 BN.com Price The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 Laura Furman $14.00 BN.com Price Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed… Lee Smith $16.57 BN.com Price The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano $17.21 BN.com Price...
...her newest book, Binocular Vision –and I was thrilled to see my own book discussed alongside hers (and Laura Furman’s) in this review by Rabbi Rachel Esserman. Shabbat shalom! Labels: Awards and Prizes , Holocaust , Israel , Jewish-American...