Lucy Honig (May 7, 1948 - September 18, 2017) was an American short story writer.
Life edit
She graduated from Syracuse University and from Hunter College with a master's in education. She taught in the Boston University School of Public Health .[1]
Her work appeared in AGNI,[2] DoubleTake, Gargoyle,[3] The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares[4]
Awards edit
- 1998 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
- 1992, 1996 O. Henry Award for short fiction
- L.L. Winship PEN New England award finalist [5]
Works edit
Short stories edit
- Open Season. Scala House Publishers, LLC. 2002. ISBN 978-0-9720287-2-1.
- The truly needy and other stories. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8229-5781-2. (reprint 2002)
- English as a Second Language. 20 Century American Short Stories - Volume 2. 1995.
Novels edit
- Waiting for Rescue: A Novel. Counterpoint. 2009. ISBN 978-1-58243-527-5.
- Picking up: by Lucy Honig. Dog Ear Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-937966-20-4.
Anthologies edit
- Best American Short Stories 1988,
- William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1992). Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-42192-8.
- John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.
References edit
- ^ Hope Green (2 April 1999). "SPH prof wins fiction prize for American survival stories". B.U. Bridge.
- ^ "AGNI Online: Author Lucy Honig". Archived from the original on 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
- ^ "Gargoyle: Issue 54". Archived from the original on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
- ^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
- ^ http://www.jfklibrary.org/NR/rdonlyres/A9BA6BE2-F20A-4268-97C1-4C65433B1C44/31567/PENHemingwaywithRobertPinsky9999996.pdf [dead link]