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Gordon Lish

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Gender Male
Age 90
Date of birth February 11,1934
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Hewlett
New York
United States
Children Atticus Lish
Job Journalist
Novelist
Book editor
Education The University of Arizona
Phillips Academy
Arizona State University
Edited worksThe Quarterly, No.23
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
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Date of Upd.
ID441980

Dear Mr. Capote
Collected Fictions
Zimzum
White Plains: Pieces & Witherlings
Mourner at the door
Arcade, or, How to write a novel
What I know so far
Self-imitation of myself
Extravaganza
My Romance: A Novel
Krupp's Lulu
Peru
Goings: In Thirteen Sittings
Cess: A Spokening
All Our Secrets Are the Same
The secret life of our times: new fiction from Esquire
Epigraph
The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish
The Quarterly - Summer 1987
Ma romance: un roman
Egress: New Openings in Literary Art
English grammar
The Quarterly - Fall, 1988
Mourner at Counter Display
The Quarterly, No. 23
Mysterium: A Novel
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Gordon Lish is an American writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford. He is the father of the novelist Atticus Lish.

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