Amy M Homes

      A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961 Washington, D.C. She is an American writer best known for her controversial novels and unusual stories, most notably "The End of Alice "(1996). She now lives in New York City.

    Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot.

         In June 2013 she won the Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel May We Be Forgiven.

Born:                December 18, 1961 Washington, U.S.
Occupation:      Fiction writer, memoirist, screenwriter
Nationality:       American
Notable work:   The End of Alice

Works

Novels

•    Jack (1989) 
•     In a Country of Mothers (1993)
•     The End of Alice (1996)
•     Appendix A: an elaboration on the novel The End of Alice (1996)
•     Music for Torching (1999)
•     This Book Will Save Your Life (2006)
•      May We Be Forgiven (2012)

Story collections

•     The Safety of Objects (1990) 
•     Things You Should Know (2002)

Non-fiction

•     Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill (2002) 
•     On the Street 1980-1990 by Amy Arbus, Introduction by Homes
•     The Mistress's Daughter (2007)

Awards

• Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation 
• The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library
• New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships
• The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 
• Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 "May We Be Forgiven"