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A. M. Homes
Darkly comic novels and stories about American family life.
The Mistress’s Daughter · May We Be Forgiven
- Born
- 18 December 1961
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C.
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A. M. Homes
American writer whose fiction places characters in extreme and unsettling situations. Her novel May We Be Forgiven won the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Early life
Education and writing
Raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland, she studied with Grace Paley at Sarah Lawrence and completed the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Career
- 1989
First novel
Published Jack.
- 1996
Controversial fiction
Published The End of Alice.
- 2013
Women’s Prize
Won for May We Be Forgiven.
Selected work
The Mistress’s Daughter
Explored adoption and meeting her birth parents.
May We Be Forgiven
Used family upheaval as the basis of a dark comedy.
Beyond work
Family and memoir
Adopted at birth, she met her biological parents as an adult. That experience became the subject of her memoir.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Biographical references ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
Photo: David Shankbone. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.