Nancy Lemann

{{Short description|American novelist (born 1956)}}

Nancy Lemann is an American novelist. She was born in New Orleans in 1956, and studied at Brown and Columbia. A proponent of southern fiction set in her native Louisiana, she is best known for novels such as The Fiery Pantheon, Malaise, The Ritz of the Bayou, and especially her acclaimed debut novel Lives of the Saints.{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/nancy-lemann/|title=BOMB Magazine | Nancy Lemann|website=BOMB Magazine}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/books/the-old-and-the-restless.html|title=The Old and the Restless|first=Karen|last=Karbo|work=The New York Times |date=June 2, 2002|via=NYTimes.com}}{{cite web | last=Haigney | first=Sophie | title=Yodeling into a Canyon: A Conversation with Nancy Lemann | website=The Paris Review | date=2022-10-18 | url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/10/18/yodeling-into-a-canyon-a-conversation-with-nancy-lemann/ | access-date=2024-04-25}}