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"

Lydia Davis

        Lydia Davis was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is a contemporary American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. Some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between
philosophy, poetry and short story.
       Davis wass the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, for her "achievement in fiction on the world stage"

Born:               July 15, 1947, Northampton, MA
Occupation:     Writer
Nationality:      American
Genres:            Short story, novel, essay

Works 

• The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories 1976 
• Sketches for a Life of Wassilly 1981
• Story and Other Stories 1985
• Break It Down 1986
• The End of the Story 1994
• Almost No Memory. Farrar Straus & Giroux 1997
• Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. McSweeney's 2001
• Varieties of Disturbance  2007
• Proust, Blanchot, and a Woman in Red 2007
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 2009 
• The Cows. Sarabande Books 2011

Awards

• 1986 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, for Break It Down 
• 1988 Whiting Foundation Writers' Award for Fiction
• 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1998 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
• 2013 American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award of Merit Medal
• 2013 Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement 
• 2013 Man Booker International Prize