Lydia Davis
b. 1947 · 40 books
Biography
From Wikipedia: Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY.
She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. In fact some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between philosophy, poetry and short story.
She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. In fact some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between philosophy, poetry and short story.
Books by Lydia Davis
Bentley Understands Love
Bentley Understands Love
Charleigh Stays Faithful
Charleigh Stays Faithful
Our Strangers
Our Strangers
Iggy Finds Peace
Iggy Finds Peace
Kinzerton Shows Kindness
Kinzerton Shows Kindness
Essays Two
Max and Milo
Max and Milo
Believer, Issue 133
Believer, Issue 133
Hikayenin Sonu
Thyroid Diary
Essays One
Neredeyse Hic Hatirlamiyor
Fibrils
Fibrils
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
HarperTrue Life - a Short Read
HarperTrue Life - a Short Read - Raw
Ni puc ni vull
Rahatsizlik Cesitleri
Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle
De taal van dingen in huis en andere verhalen
The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Yapamam ve Yapmayacagim
No puedo ni quiero
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Two American Scenes
Inventario dei desideri
Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red
Two Former Students
Creature nel giardino
Kakerlakker om efteråret (in Danish)
Poetry Pamphlets 112
Electric Literature No 2
KAFKA AUX FOURNEAUX
Varieties of Disturbance
Samuel Johnson is indignant
A philosophical investigation
A philosophical investigation into theodical debate in a post-holocaust era
Almost no memory
The Best American Short Stories 1997
Sketches for a Life of Wassilly
Fantastic Photographs
The thirteenth woman and other
The thirteenth woman and other stories