A. M. Homes
Author of This Book Will Save Your Life
About the Author
A. M. Homes is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Works by A. M. Homes
A Encomenda 2 copies
Do Not Disturb 2 copies
Cindy Stubenstock - story 1 copy
Lost Weekend 1 copy
América Em Chamas 1 copy
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Contributor — 201 copies
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contributor — 186 copies
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributor — 117 copies
The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood… (2007) — Contributor — 88 copies
All the Ways Home: Parenting and Children in the Lesbian and Gay Communities - A Collection of Short Fiction (Lita) (1995) — Contributor — 53 copies
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- Canonical name
- Homes, A. M.
- Legal name
- Homes, Amy Michael
- Other names
- Homes, Amy M.
- Birthdate
- 1961-12-18
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Places of residence
- Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- American University
Sarah Lawrence College (BA | 1985)
University of Iowa (MFA | 1988) - Occupations
- fiction writer
memoirist
screenwriter
teacher - Awards and honors
- Benjamin Franklin Award
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Artists fellowship
New York Public Library. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (1998) - Short biography
- A.M. Homes is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has published fiction and essays in The New Yorker, Harpers, McSweeny's and the New York Times. She lives in New York City. [from The Mistress's Daughter (2007)
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- Works
- 51
- Also by
- 27
- Members
- 7,734
- Popularity
- #3,154
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 255
- ISBNs
- 256
- Languages
- 13
- Favorited
- 35
It isn't five stars sheerly for the subject matter, and that's the same reason I write this review -- to warn those who might read this, not knowing what they're going to get into. I don't really feel like glorifying a work wrapped around a pedophile's life or the empathy one can find with him. Still, the writing was sound, the book engrossing -- much like a trainwreck is.… (more)