Cree LeFavour

LeFavour was born in Aspen, Colorado, where her father, the chef Bruce LeFavour, owned the Paragon Restaurant.{{Cite news |last=Seelye |first=Katharine Q. |date=2019-10-13 |title=Bruce LeFavour, 'a Good Cook,' Dies at 84 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/obituaries/bruce-lefavour-dies.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |issn=0362-4331}} In 1974 LeFavour and her family moved to Robinson Bar Ranch, a dude ranch in central Idaho that the family later sold to Carole King.{{Cite web |last=Lopez |first=Tom |date=2016-01-17 |title=Robinson Bar Ranch by Joe Leonard |url=https://www.idahoaclimbingguide.com/robinson-bar-ranch/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=IDAHO: A Climbing Guide |language=en-US}} LeFavour and her sister Nicole attended Stanley Elementary School before moving to Sun Valley where they attended and graduated from the Community School. Cree went on to graduate from Middlebury College in Vermont with a B.A. degree in American History. LeFavour completed her Ph.D. in American Studies at New York University in 2004.

LeFavour has two children with her husband, the book critic Dwight Garner. She lives in New York City.

In "An Odyssey of Self-Harm and Out the Other Side", Daphne Merkin's New York Times review of Lights On, Rats Out, she praised LeFavour's "rare willingness to take the reader into difficult and sometimes unpleasant territory." Merkin called the book "courageous and unsettling" and "a riveting account of a 'particular kind of crazy'."{{Cite news|first=Daphne |last=Merkin |date=2017-07-24 |title=An Odyssey Through Self-Harm and Out the Other Side |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/books/review/lights-on-rats-out-memoir-cree-lefavour.html |access-date=2023-08-09}} The book was included in Book Riot's "50 Must-Read Memoirs of Mental Illness"{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Sarah S. |date=2019-05-08 |title=50 Must-Read Memoirs About Mental Illness |url=https://bookriot.com/memoirs-about-mental-illness/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=BOOK RIOT |language=en-US}}

Library Journal described LeFavour's novel Private Means as a "wry, sophisticated, and intelligent rendering of modern, privileged city life",{{Cite web |title=‹ Reviewer Book Marks |url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviewer/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Book Marks |language=en-US}} while Chloe Schama in Vogue called it "a tart comedy of manners. Lionel Shriver, writing for The New York Times, was less impressed, asking in her tepid review titled "One Cheats the Other Wants To": "Is it not sufficient to pass a reader’s time agreeably enough, and to tell a proficiently executed story with an age-old theme and an updated setting? I don’t know. You tell me."{{Cite news |date=2020-08-18 |title=Scenes From a Marriage: One Cheats, the Other Wants To|first=Lionel|last=Shriver|newspaper=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/books/review/private-means-cree-lefavour.html |access-date=2023-08-10}}

• Private Means, Grove Press, 2020 {{ISBN|978-0802148889}}{{Cite web |title=Private Means: A Novel {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9780802148889 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=isbndb.com}}
• Lights On, Rats Out, Grove Atlantic, 2017. {{ISBN|0802125964}}{{Cite web |title=Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9780802125965 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=isbndb.com}}
• Pork: More Than 50 Heavenly Meals that Celebrate the Glory of Pig, Delicious Pig. Chronicle Books, 2014 {{ISBN|978-1452109831}}{{Cite web |title=Pork: More than 50 Heavenly Meals that Celebrate the Glory of Pig, Delicious Pig {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9781452109831 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=isbndb.com}}
• Fish: 54 Seafood Feasts, Chronicle Books, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1452109480}}{{Cite web |title=Fish: 54 Seafood Feasts {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9781452109480 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=isbndb.com}}
• Poulet: More than 50 Remarkable Recipes that Exalt the Honest Chicken. Chronicle Books, 2011 {{ISBN|978-0811879699}}{{Cite web |title=Poulet: More Than 50 Remarkable Recipes That Exalt the Honest Chicken {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9780811879699 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=isbndb.com}}
• The New Steak: Recipes for a Range of Cuts Plus Sides, Ten Speed Press, 2008 {{ISBN|978-1580088909}}{{Cite web |title=The New Steak: Recipes for a Range of Cuts plus Savory Sides {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9781580088909 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=isbndb.com}}
• Who Reads and American Book: British Reprints and Popular Reading in America, 1848-1858. VDM Verlag 2009 {{ISBN|978-3639175790}}{{Cite book |last=LeFavour |first=Cree |title=Who Reads an American Book?: British Reprints and Popular Reading in America, 1848-1858 |date=2009-07-22 |publisher=VDM Verlag |isbn=978-3-639-17579-0 |language=English}}

• Cindy Brooks and Cree LeFavour, The Ucross Cookbook, 2022.{{Cite web |title=The Ucross Cookbook |url=http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/store/p1/TheUcrossCookbook.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=UCROSS |language=en}}
• Michael Phillips and Cree LeFavour, Chelsea Market Makers, Stewart, Chabori & Tang. {{ISBN|978-1617691669}}{{Cite web |title=Chelsea Market Makers: Recipes, Tips, and Techniques from the Artisans of New York's Premier Food Hall {{!}} ISBNdb |url=https://isbndb.com/book/9781617691669 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=isbndb.com}}

• "Edan Lepucki's Third Novel Makes 'The Cult of Motherhood Literal,'" The New York Times, August 3, 2023.{{Cite news |last=LeFavour |first=Cree |date=2023-08-01 |title=Edan Lepucki's Third Novel Makes the 'Cult of Motherhood' Literal |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/edan-lepucki-times-mouth.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |issn=0362-4331}}
• "Claire Vaye Watkins Urgent, Sweaty Novel About a Woman Who's a Mess", The New York Times, October 5, 2021.{{Cite news |last=LeFavour |first=Cree |date=2021-10-05 |title=Claire Vaye Watkins's Urgent, Sweaty Novel About a Woman Who's a Mess |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/books/review/i-love-you-but-ive-chosen-darkness-claire-vaye-watkins.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |issn=0362-4331}}
• "Jane Eyre Fever: Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of Charlotte Bronte in Antebellum America," Book History, 2004.{{Cite journal |last=LeFavour |first=Cree |date=2004 |title="Jane Eyre" Fever: Deciphering the Astonishing Popular Success of Charlotte Brontë in Antebellum America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30227359 |journal=Book History |volume=7 |pages=113–141 |jstor=30227359 |issn=1098-7371}}
• "Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the Unmasking of American Sentimentality", in, Lance Newman, Joel Pace, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds, Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic, Romanticism, Romantic Circles'', November 2006.{{Cite web |last=LeFavour |first=Cree |title=LeFavour, "Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the Unmasking of Anglo-American Sentiment" |url=https://romantic-circles.org/praxis/sullenfires/lefavour/lefavour_essay.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=romantic-circles.org |language=en}}

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