1. Lydia Davis was born on July 15,1947 and is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes very short stories.
13 Facts About Lydia Davis
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Lydia Davis was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on July 15,1947.
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Lydia Davis is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis, a critic and professor of English, and Hope Hale Davis, a short-story writer, teacher, and memoirist.
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Lydia Davis attended high school at The Putney School, graduating in 1965.
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Lydia Davis studied at Barnard College, and at that time she mostly wrote poetry.
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In 1974, Lydia Davis married Paul Auster, with whom she had a son named Daniel.
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Auster and Lydia Davis later divorced; Lydia Davis is married to the artist Alan Cote, with whom she has another son, Theo Cote.
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Lydia Davis is a professor emerita at the University at Albany, SUNY, and was a Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University in 2012.
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis contains all her short fiction up to 2008.
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Lydia Davis has published one novel, The End of the Story, released in 2004.
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Lydia Davis was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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Lydia Davis was announced as the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize on 22 May 2013.
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Lydia Davis declined to sell her book, Our Strangers, on Amazon.