Monkeys

Career

Minot's first book, Monkeys, won the 1987 Prix Femina étranger in France and was published in a dozen countries. Her other books, all published internationally, are Lust & Other Stories, Folly, Evening, Rapture, Poems 4 A.M., and Thirty Girls.

In 1984, she received first prize in the Pushcart Prize for her story "Hiding".[3] Among the anthologies that include her fiction are The Best American Short Stories 1984 and 1985 and the Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 1985, 1989 and 2011.[4]

Minot's poems and stories have been published in The New Yorker,[5] Grand Street, The Paris Review, GQ, Kenyon Review, River City, New England Review, Swink, Mississippi Review, H.O.W., Marie Claire (UK edition), Fiction, Northwest Humanities Review and Atlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction and travel writing have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing 2001 and McSweeney's, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vogue, Travel and Leisure, Esquire, American Scholar, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, Victoria, and Porter Magazine.

Minot has taught creative writing at New York University,[6] Stony Brook Southampton,[7] and Columbia University.

Minot wrote the screenplay for Stealing Beauty (1996) with Bernardo Bertolucci, and co-authored Evening (based on her novel of the same name) with Michael Cunningham.

Minot's book of poems Poems 4 AM was published in 2002.

The Little Locksmith, a play based on the book by Katharine Butler Hathaway (1942), was performed in North Haven, Maine, in 2002, starring Linda Hunt.


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