Lydia Davis is the author of several story collections and one novel.
Her story collection Break It Down was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her most recent collection, Varieties of Disturbance, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She was made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her work as a translator of Proust, Blanchot, Foucault, Michel Leiris, and other French writers.
Davis received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. She is a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany-SUNY and lives in upstate New York.
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