Lucy Ellmann
Lucy Ellmann | |
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| Born | 18 October 1956 |
| Language | English |
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| Alma mater | Falmouth School of Art (Foundation degree, 1975)[3] University of Essex (BA, 1980) Courtauld Institute of Art (MA, 1981) |
| Notable work | Ducks, Newburyport (2019) |
| Spouse | Todd McEwen |
| Relatives | Richard Ellmann (father) Mary Ellmann (mother) |
Lucy Ellmann (born 18 October 1956) is an American-born British novelist based in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann and of the feminist literary critic Mary Ellmann. She is the sister of the critic Maud Ellmann. She is married to the American writer Todd McEwen. Her fourth novel, Dot in the Universe, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Believer Book Award.[5] Her latest book, Ducks, Newburyport was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2019.[6] It won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize[7] and the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.[8][9]
Ellmann lectured and led seminars in Creative Writing at the University of Kent between September 2009 and July 2010.[10][11]
Ellmann has been recognised with honours and fellowships, including the Royal Literary Fund; Queen Margaret University 2017/18; University of Dundee 2011/12; Queen Margaret University 2005–07; and been a Hawthornden Fellow[12] and Hawthornden fellowship residence at Hawthornden Castle.[5]
Notable works
[edit | edit source]- Sweet Desserts (1988)
- Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (1991)
- The Spy Who Caught a Cold (screenplay, 1995)
- Man or Mango? A Lament (1999)
- Dot in the Universe (2003)
- Doctors & Nurses (2006)
- Mimi (2013)
- Ducks, Newburyport (2019)
- Things Are Against Us (2021)
References
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Sources
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Lucy Ellmann at Bloomsbury.com
- New York Times review of Dot in the Universe
- Interview from The Daily Telegraph magazine
- Believer Book Awards finalists
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- Academics of the University of Kent
- Writers from Evanston, Illinois
- American emigrants to England
- English women novelists
- Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Alumni of Falmouth University
- Alumni of the University of Essex
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- Novelists from Illinois
- Writers from Edinburgh
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- Goldsmiths Prize winners
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women novelists
- 20th-century English women
- 20th-century English writers
- 21st-century English women
- American novelist, 1950s birth stubs