Biography of Lorrie Moore


Study Guides on Works by Lorrie Moore

Anagrams is the first novel by acclaimed short story writer Lorrie Moore. Published in 1986, the novel is attempt to transfer the concept of anagrammatic rearrangement from letters to characters. Moore has described the work as a “cubist novel”...

With its publication in 2014, Bark became Lorrie Moore’s first all-new collection of short stories since her highly regarded Birds of America appeared in 1998. Among the plaudits which this volume earned were short-list nominations for two...

The publication of Lorrie Moore’s third collection of short stories catapulted her to the front ranks of major writers of short fiction. What her previous collection Like Life promised, the arrival in 1998 of Birds of America confirmed. Though she...