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A. M. Homes

Infobox Writer
name = A. M. Homes

Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961) [Library of Congress authority record. Retrieved on November 11, 2007.] is an American writer. She is best-known for her controversial novels and unusual stories, most notably "The End of Alice" (1996), a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. She is also the author of the novels "This Book Will Save Your Life" (2006), "Music for Torching" (1999), "In a Country of Mothers" (1993), and "Jack" (1989), and the story collections "The Safety of Objects" (1990) and "Things You Should Know" (2002).

Background

Homes was born in in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. in 1985 from Sarah Lawrence College, [Weich, Dave, "A.M. Homes Is a Big Fat Liar," Powells.com, May 24, 1999.] where she studied with the author Grace Paley. She earned her M.F.A. from the celebrated University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Personal

Homes currently lives in New York City with her young daughter. ["A. M. Homes." "Contemporary Authors Online" (April 25, 2007). Gale. Retrieved on November 11, 2007.] In 2007 she spent the summer months as writer-in-residence in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [cite web|url= http://www.writerinresidence.nl/index.php?mwid=23&sid=411|date=2007 |accessdate=2007-05-09 | title="Guest Writers 2007" |work=Residency for Writers in Amsterdam] She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia University, The New School, and New York University. [Lyceum Speakers Agency, http://www.lyceumagency.com/a_m_+homes.aspx, retrieved 3-20-2008]

In April 2007, she stated in the "Washington Post", “I've dated men and I've dated women and there's no more or less to it than that.” [ [http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/5/amhomes Catching up with AM Homes] . Afterellen.com. Retrieved May 29, 2007.] [ [http://www.amhomesbooks.com/index.php?mode=objectlist&section_id=137&object_id=293 A.M. Homes - Author Interviews ] ] In an interview with "Diva" magazine she said, "‘I am bisexual, but I wouldn’t necessarily define myself that way." [ [http://www.divamag.co.uk/diva/features.asp?PID=37647 "Diva" magazine interview] ]

Awards

Homes is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, National Foundation for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. Her work has been translated into 18 languages.

Career

Fiction

Homes' first novel, "Jack", an exploration of family life and sexuality, was published to critical acclaim in 1989; with a screenplay by the author, it was produced as a film for the cable network Showtime in 2004. She followed it a year later with the short-story collection "The Safety of Objects", which was released as a feature film in 2001. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham called her 1996 novel "The End of Alice" as "dark and treacherous as ice on a highway. It establishes A.M. Homes as one of the bravest, most terrifying writers working today. She never plays it safe, and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything."

Homes's 1999 novel "Music for Torching"—featuring characters from "The Safety of Objects"—brought her widest acclaim. Gary Krist in "The New York Times" wrote, "I found myself rapt from beginning to end, fascinated by Homes's single-minded talent for provocation." [Krist, Gary, "Burning Down The House," The New York Times, May 30, 1999.] . "People" magazine called the novel "haunting," [Hubbard, Kim, People, "Music For Torching," June 28, 1999.] , Britain's The Observer found it "immensely disturbing". [Clark, Alex, The Observer, "Book Burns Night", August 22, 1999.] Writing in "The Guardian" in 2003, the writer Ali Smith called Homes' collection "Things You Should Know" "funny and glinting and masterful, light as air, strange as a dream, monstrous as truth: the real and classic thing." [Smith, Ali, The Guardian, "Fertile Ground: Ali Smith revels in A.M. Homes' Masterful Short Stories," May 21, 2003.]

Journalism

Her journalism appears in magazines such as "Artforum", "Vanity Fair", and "McSweeney's", among others. In 2004, "The New Yorker" published "The Mistress's Daughter", an essay about Homes's meeting, after 31 years, the biological parents who had put her up for adoption at birth. The essay eventually was expanded and published as a memoir in 2007. [cite web|url=http://movies.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=224351|date=May 28 2006|accessdate=2007-03-08|title="A.M. Homes Throws Readers a Life Preserver"|work=MSN Entertainment]

Television

Homes wrote for season two of the television drama series "The L Word". On July 20, 2007 she announced that she would be developing an HBO series about the Hamptons - "a cross between "Desperate Housewives" and "Grapes of Wrath"."fact|date=July 2007

Works

Novels

* "Jack" (1989)
* "In a Country of Mothers" (1993)
* "The End of Alice" (1996)
* "" (1996)
* "Music for Torching" (1999)
* "This Book Will Save Your Life" (2006)

tory collections

* "The Safety of Objects" (1990)
* "Things You Should Know" (2002)

Non-fiction

* "" (2002)
* "On the Street 1980-1990" by Amy Arbus, Introduction by Homes
* "The Mistress's Daughter" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.amhomesbooks.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.powells.com/authors/homes.html Powells interview with A.M. Homes]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A12480941 Interview with A.M. Homes on BBC Collective]
*imdb name|0392977|A.M. Homes

References

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ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Homes, Amy Michael (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Novelist, memoirist
DATE OF BIRTH=December 18, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH=Washington, D.C.
DATE OF DEATH=
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