11 Facts About Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore was born on Marie Lorena Moore; January 13,1957 and is an American writer, critic, and essayist.

Lorrie Moore is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards.

Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York, and nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents.

Lorrie Moore's anthology Collected Stories was published by Faber in the United Kingdom in May 2008.

Lorrie Moore has written a children's book entitled The Forgotten Helper, about an elf whom Santa Claus mistakenly leaves behind at the home of the worst child on his "good" list.

Lorrie Moore writes occasionally about books, films, and television for The New York Review of Books.

Lorrie Moore joined the faculty in 1984 and left to join the faculty at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2013, where she is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English.

Lorrie Moore has taught at Cornell University, as the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, and at the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Michigan, as well as at Princeton and New York University.

Lorrie Moore won the 1998 O Henry Award for her short story "People Like That Are the Only People Here," published in The New Yorker on January 27,1997.

In 1999, Lorrie Moore was named as the winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize for Birds of America.

Lorrie Moore was a James Merrill Invited Fellow in 2016.