Frances Sherwood was an American writer, novelist, and educator.
10 Facts About Frances Sherwood
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Frances Sherwood had three children from a previous marriage to Reynold Madoo.
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Frances Sherwood then pursued graduate study at New York University.
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Frances Sherwood continued the study of fiction writing at Stanford University after winning a Stegner Fellowship in 1976.
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Frances Sherwood's first book-length publication was a short story collection, Everything You've Heard Is True.
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Frances Sherwood went on to publish four novels: Vindication, Green, The Book of Splendor and Night of Sorrows.
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In 1986, Frances Sherwood was hired as an assistant professor of English at Indiana University South Bend, where she taught creative writing and journalism.
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Frances Sherwood was promoted to professor of English in 1994.
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Frances Sherwood said she considered herself a "new historical" novelist, a writer who displaces current political and psychological issues onto earlier times and exotic locales.
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Frances Sherwood died on April 27,2021, in South Bend, Indiana.