Alice Mattison

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Alice Mattison
Born (1942-03-18) March 18, 1942 (age 81)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Genreshort story, novel

Alice Mattison (born March 18, 1942) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Life

Mattison was born in Brooklyn and attended Queens College and Harvard University, where she received a doctorate in literature. She has lived in New Haven, Connecticut since the 1970s. [1] She has taught fiction in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College [2] since 1995 and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Mattison has also taught at Brooklyn College, Yale University and Albertus Magnus College.

Mattison and the poet Jane Kenyon met when both published books with the cooperative press Alice James Books, and forged a close friendship and working relationship. Mattison has written about their friendship and mutual influence in an essay published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, entitled "Let It Grow in the Dark Like a Mushroom: Writing with Jane Kenyon." [3]

Career

Mattison began her career as a poet, publishing a collection of poems in 1980. She began writing short stories in the 1980s. Her first collection of stories, Great Wits, was published in 1988, and her first novel, Field of Stars, in 1992. [4]

Mattison's writing has been characterized in a review of "When We Argued All Night" (The New York Times Sunday Book Review): "Her prose is so crisp that along with all the pleasures of fiction she manages to deliver the particular intellectual satisfactions of an essay or a documentary." [5]

Selected works

Books
Edited book
Stories in journals

Awards

Mattison's short story, "Election Day", was awarded the Lawrence Foundation Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review in 2005.

Mattison's novel, In Case We’re Separated, won the Connecticut Book Award for fiction in 2006. [11]

Interviews

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  10. ↑ "The O. Henry Prize Stories". Randomhouse.com. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
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