Laura Furman
Laura Furman , series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of several books, including the story collection The Mother Who Stayed , she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas.
Laura Furman , series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of several books, including the story collection The Mother Who Stayed , she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas. See less
Laura Furman's Featured Books
Laura Furman book reviews
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Tuxedo Park
Tuxedo Park
This book arranges the solution to a mistaken marriage so artfully that you might wish, as I do, that it was the first volume of a trilogy just so you could follow its characters through a couple ... Read More
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Watch Time Fly
Furman knows fiction
If you have an MFA in creative writing, as I do, you'll be able to recognize fine art when you see it in prose. Furman knows how to write. Period. She's also got curiosity, empathy, and a great sense ... Read More
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Mother Who Stayed: Stories
Furman writes real well
Ever since reading Laura Furman's recent story in Epoch magazine (Vol 62, No. 3, 2013)--"The Boy Who Did What He Wanted"--I've been trying to read all of her other works. This short story collection ... Read More