Grace Dane Mazur (born 1944) is an American writer.[1] Her works include the novels Trespass (1998) and The Garden Party (2018), the short story collection Silk (1996), and Hinges (2010), a book that combines "personal essay, literary criticism, art history, and memoir."[2]
Grace Dane Mazur | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 22, 1944 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | Early - 1990s until present |
| Genres | Fiction, short story, non-fiction |
| Spouse | Barry Mazur |
| Website | |
| gracedanemazur | |
Biography
editInitially pursuing a career in the biological sciences, Mazur earned a PhD in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard University in 1981,[1][3] after which she spent a number of years researching morphogenesis and micro-architecture in silkworms at Harvard's Biological Laboratories.[4][5][6] In 1993, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Warren Wilson College.[1][7][8] Mazur worked as fiction editor at the Harvard Review from 1993 to 2004,[8][9] and has worked as fiction editor at Tupelo Press from 2009 to the present.[8][10] She has taught creative writing at the Harvard Extension School and the Master of Fine Arts program at Warren Wilson College.[5][11] Her works have been reviewed in The New York Times,[12][13] The Washington Post,[14] the Los Angeles Times,[15] and People,[16] as well as on Vox.[17] She is married to mathematician Barry Mazur, the Gerhard Gade University Professor and senior fellow at Harvard University.[18]
Selected works
editNovels
edit- The Garden Party, Random House 2018 (ISBN 9780399179723)[13][14][16][17]
- Trespass: A Novel, Nocturnum Press 1999 (ISBN 9781555973643)[15]
Short-story collections
edit- Silk, Brookline Books 1996. (ISBN 9781571290281)[12]
Nonfiction
edit- Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination, CRC Press 2010. (ISBN 9781568817156)
References
edit- ^ a b c Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers (19 ed.). London and New York: Europa Publications Limited. p. 379. ISBN 1857431790. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ Mazur, Grace Dane (8 November 2010). Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination, 1st Edition. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1568817156.
- ^ "Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences". gsas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Author Details - Mazur, Grace Dane". scopus.com. Scopus. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Grace Dane Mazur". penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Grace Dane Mazur Bio". gracedanemazur.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ Mazur, Grace Dane (6 July 2018). "I Worked in Biology for 17 Years… Then I Became a Writer". lithub.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b c "No Lay-Offs Here!". awpwriter.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ Rosefield, Hannah. "The Garden Party". harvardreview.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Zachary Shuster Harmsworth, A Literary & Entertainment Agency" (PDF). antherights.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "The MFA Program at Warren Wilson College, Faculty Past & Present". wwcmfa.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b Goreau, Angeline (November 17, 1996). "Forbidden Fruit". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b Shipstead, Maggie (August 31, 2018). "'The Garden Party' Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b Rioux, Anne Boyd (July 12, 2018). "Marriage can't quite bring two families together in 'The Garden Party'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b Reynolds, Susan Salter (June 2, 2002). "Discoveries". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b "The Garden Party". penguinrandomhouse.com. Penguin Random House. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b Grady, Constance (19 July 2018). "In The Garden Party, family discord gets a beautifully retro, modernist treatment". vox.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Barry Mazur". math.harvard.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2019.