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A. M. Homes
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Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961)[1] is an American fiction writer known for her controversial and unusual stories, most notably The End of Alice (1996), a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. She is also the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life (2006), Music for Torching (1999), In a Country of Mothers (1993), and Jack (1989), and the story collections The Safety of Objects (1990) and Things You Should Know (2002).
Her fiction has been translated into 18 languages, and she is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Foundation for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
Her work appears in magazines such as Artforum and Vanity Fair, among others. In 2004, The New Yorker published "The Mistress's Daughter", an essay about Homes's meeting, after 31 years, the biological parents who had put her up for adoption at birth. The essay eventually was expanded and published as a memoir in 2007.[2]
Homes wrote for season two of the television drama series The L Word. In April 2007, she stated in the Washington Post, “I've dated men and I've dated women and there's no more or less to it than that.”[3][4] In a interview with Diva magazine she said, "‘I am bisexual, but I wouldn’t necessarily define myself that way."[5]
Homes was born in in Washington, D.C. and currently lives in New York City.[6] Between May and mid-July 2007 she was writer in residence in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.[7]
On July 20, 2007 she announced that she's developing an HBO series about the Hamptons - "a cross between Desperate Housewives and Grapes of Wrath."[citation needed]
- 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)
- The Safety of Objects (1990)
- Things You Should Know (2002)
- 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 (April 2007)
- Official Website
- Powells interview with A.M. Homes
- Interview with A.M. Homes on BBC Collective
- A.M. Homes at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Library of Congress authority record. Retrieved on November 11, 2007.
- ^ "A.M. Homes Throws Readers a Life Preserver". MSN Entertainment (May 28, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-08.
- ^ Catching up with AM Homes. Afterellen.com. Retrieved May 29, 2007.
- ^ http://www.amhomesbooks.com/index.php?mode=objectlist§ion_id=137&object_id=293
- ^ Diva magazine interview
- ^ "A. M. Homes." Contemporary Authors Online (April 25, 2007). Gale. Retrieved on November 11, 2007.
- ^ "Guest Writers 2007". Residency for Writers in Amsterdam (2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Homes, A. M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Homes, Amy Michael (full name) |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Novelist, memoirist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, D.C. |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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