Lucy Ellmann

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| birth_place = Evanston, Illinois, U.S.{{Cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-biblioracle-0908-20190903-jkavph6r5ngifdib5xlzf2bz2a-story.html |title='Ducks, Newburyport' by Lucy Ellmann: Do you have the mettle (and the wrist strength) to tackle this 1,034-page phenom? Biblioracle John Warner wonders. |last=Warner |first=John |date=3 September 2019 |website=Chicago Tribune}}

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| alma_mater = Falmouth School of Art (Foundation degree, 1975){{Cite web |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/lucy-ellmann |title=Lucy Ellmann - Literature |website=British Council}}
University of Essex (BA, 1980)
Courtauld Institute of Art (MA, 1981)

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| notablework = Ducks, Newburyport (2019)

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Lucy Ellmann (born 18 October 1956) is an American-born British novelist based in Edinburgh, Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://thebaffler.com/authors/lucy-ellmann|title=Lucy Ellmann|date=4 March 2015|website=The Baffler}}

Biography

Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann and of the feminist literary critic Mary Ellmann. She is the sister of the critic Maud Ellmann. She is married to the American writer Todd McEwen. Her fourth novel, Dot in the Universe, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Believer Book Award.{{citation | article= Ellmann, Lucy 1956– |series = Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series |url = http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ellmann-lucy-1956| title= Encyclopedia.com}} Retrieved October 08, 2018. Her latest book, Ducks, Newburyport was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2019.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/03/booker-prize-margaret-atwoods-the-handmaids-tale-sequel-makes-shortlist|title=Booker Prize Shortlist 2019|newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 September 2019 |access-date=3 September 2019 |last1=Cain |first1=Sian }} It won the 2019 Goldsmiths PrizeSee https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/archive. Accessed 22 July 2020. and the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.{{Cite news|last=Cain|first=Sian|date=2020-08-21|title=Lucy Ellmann lands James Tait Black prize, 38 years after her father's win|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/21/lucy-ellmann-james-tait-black-prize-ducks-newburyport|access-date=2020-10-13|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web|title=Fiction winners|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/events/james-tait-black/winners/fiction|access-date=2020-10-13|website=The University of Edinburgh|language=en}}

Ellmann lectured and led seminars in Creative Writing at the University of Kent between September 2009 and July 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=409838|title=The core connection|date=7 January 2010|publisher=Time Higher Education Supplement|access-date=18 March 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles/ellmann.html|title=School of English - Lucy Ellmann|access-date=18 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124044227/http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/profiles/ellmann.html|archive-date=24 November 2009|url-status=dead}}

Ellmann has been recognised with honours and fellowships, including the Royal Literary Fund; Queen Margaret University 2017/18; University of Dundee 2011/12; Queen Margaret University 2005–07; and been a Hawthornden Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowships/lucy-ellmann/|title=Lucy Ellmann|website=The Royal Literary Fund}} and Hawthornden fellowship residence at Hawthornden Castle.

Notable works

Sweet Desserts (1988)
Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (1991)
The Spy Who Caught a Cold (screenplay, 1995)
Man or Mango? A Lament (1999)
Dot in the Universe (2003)
Doctors & Nurses (2006)
Mimi (2013)
Ducks, Newburyport (2019)
Things Are Against Us (2021)

References

Sources

{{citation | article= Ellmann, Lucy 1956– |series = Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series |url = http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ellmann-lucy-1956| title= Encyclopedia.com}} Retrieved October 8, 2018.

External links

[https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/lucy-ellmann/ Lucy Ellmann at Bloomsbury.com]
[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE5DC103AF930A25751C0A9629C8B63 New York Times review of Dot in the Universe]
[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/17/1052885444952.html Interview from The Daily Telegraph magazine]
[http://www.believermag.com/issues/200502/?read=believer_book_award_finalists Believer Book Awards finalists]

Category:1956 births

Category:Living people

Category:Academics of the University of Kent

Category:Writers from Evanston, Illinois

Category:American women novelists

Category:American emigrants to England

Category:English women novelists

Category:Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Category:Alumni of Falmouth University

Category:Alumni of the University of Essex

Category:20th-century American novelists

Category:20th-century American women writers