Brett Ellen Block
Brett Ellen Block | |
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| Born | {} |
| Pen name | Ellen Block |
| Language | English |
| Education | Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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| Notable awards | Drue Heinz Literature Prize 2001 Destination Known |
Brett Ellen Block (born in Summit, New Jersey) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Life
[edit | edit source]Block was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey.[1][2] She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Hopwood and Haugh Prizes for Fiction Writing. She went on to earn graduate degrees at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of East Anglia’s Fiction Writing Program.[3]
Her debut collection of short stories, "Destination Known," won the Drue Heinz Literary Prize, and she is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Grave of God’s Daughter and the Macavity Award-nominated thriller The Lightning Rule.[4]
Writing under the name "Ellen Block" she penned the novel The Language of Sand and its sequel, The Definition of Wind.
She lives in Los Angeles.
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Destination Known[5]
- 2003 Michener-Copernicus Fellowship
Works
[edit | edit source]Short stories
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Staff. "Block, Brett Ellen–", Contemporary Authors, 2008. Accessed February 18, 2011.
- ^ Freeholders Honor Brett Ellen Block of Summit, Union County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders, December 22, 2006, backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 19, 2007. Accessed February 18, 2011.
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External links
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- Living people
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- American women short story writers
- American short story writers
- Writers from Summit, New Jersey
- University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- Hopwood Award winners
- 1973 births
- 21st-century American women