Susan Daitch

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Susan Daitch
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Daitch in 2007
NationalityAmerican
Education Barnard College
GenreShort Story, Novel

Susan Daitch is an American novelist and short story writer. In 1996 David Foster Wallace called her "one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today." [1]

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Biography

Daitch graduated from Barnard College [2] and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. [3] She is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. [4] [5]

Her work has appeared in Guernica , [6] Bomb , [7] Pacific Review, [8] The Barcelona Review,, [9] Fault Magazine, [10] Rain Taxi,, [11] Tablet , [12] Tin House, [13] McSweeney's , [14] Bomb, [15] Conjunctions, [16] The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction, [17] and elsewhere.

Her novel, Siege of Comedians, was listed as one of the best books of 2021 [18] in The Wall Street Journal .

She taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [19] She teaches at Hunter College. [20]

A 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, [2] she is a supporter of Women for Afghan Women. [21]

Bibliography

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References

  1. On the back cover of Daitch’s Storytown: “These are fine and moving stories about the death of meaning, about persons trying to decode the seas of signals in which they float and drown, failing. Their flaw is their triumph: they try—and so the stories are also about courage, that most tragic of virtues. This is an important collection by one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.”
  2. 1 2 "Barnard College – Susan Daitch '77 and B.G. Firmani '90 awarded NYFA fellowships" . Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  3. Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (1993). Independent study program: 25 years (1968-1993) : Whitney Museum of American Art. Frances Mulhall Achilles Library Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art.
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