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McCracken holds the James Michener Chair of Fiction of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. [3] She and her husband were previously on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the sister of former PC World magazine editor-in-chief and founder of Technologizer.com Harry McCracken.
I proceed in my analysis ever mindful of the utter calamity of stillbirth for the parents of a stillborn baby. It is, as novelist Elizabeth McCracken states in her generous memoir of stillbirth, 'the worst thing in the world.'" [9] The book has also been described as part of a genre of "narratives about pregnancy by those who have been pregnant ...
Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry is a collection of short stories by Elizabeth McCracken first published in 1993 by Random House. It was included on the American Library Association's "List of Notable Books for 1994." [1]
McCracken’s new novel pays tribute to a woman who may or may not be (but probably is) inspired by the author's own mother. Elizabeth McCracken’s “The Hero of This Book” Is a Loving Ode to ...
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McCracken was a journalist and published author, writing under her maiden name L.A.M. Priestley. Her first book, Love Stories of Some Eminent Women was published by Henry J Davis, London in 1906. In The Feminine in Fiction published, with a foreword by Charlotte Despard , [ 6 ] by Unwin in 1918, she dissected the relations between the sexes as ...
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The Giant's House is the debut novel of Elizabeth McCracken, first published in 1996.The novel was short-listed for the 1996 National Book Award for Fiction.The novel explores how Peggy Cort, a librarian and "old maid", falls in love with one of her patrons, the world's tallest Man, James Sweatt.