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Lydia Davis

From Wikipedia: Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY.

She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. In fact some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between philosophy, poetry and short story.

American writer

Born 15 Jul 1947

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  • Cover of: End of the Story
    First published in 1994 9 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition endofstory00lydi Cover of edition endofstory00davi

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  • Cover of: Essays
    First published in 2019 8 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
    First published in 2001 7 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition samueljohnsonisi00davi

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  • Cover of: Almost No Memory: (Stories)
    First published in 1997 6 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: The collected stories of Lydia Davis.

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  • Cover of: Can't and won't
    First published in 2014 6 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition cantwont0000davi

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  • Cover of: Essays 2
    First published in 2021 5 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: Break It Down (High Risk Books)
    First published in 1986 5 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition breakitdownstori00davi

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  • Cover of: The Best American Short Stories 1997

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  • Cover of: Our Strangers
    First published in 2023 3 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: Varieties of disturbance: stories
    First published in 2007 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Letters to His Neighbor

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  • Cover of: Thyroid Diary: A Story

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  • Cover of: Night Train
    First published in 2021 2 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: Letters to the Lady Upstairs

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  • Cover of: Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle: the last gray dog of Kenmuir

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  • Cover of: Story, and other stories
    First published in 1983 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: The thirteenth woman and other stories

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  • Cover of: De taal van dingen in huis en andere verhalen
    First published in 2014 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Poetry Pamphlets 112
    First published in 2010 1 edition

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