Sandra Novack
{{Short description|American novelist}}
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| birth_place = Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| education = Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA)
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Sandra Novack (born 1972) is an American writer of a novel and short stories. Her debut novel, Precious, was a Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2009.[http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=3801710 Booklist top 10 first novels of 2009] Book List Online
Early life and education
Novack was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1972, to Joanne Novack, a court systems operator at Lehigh County Courthouse, and Joseph Novack, a millwright at Bethlehem Steel.
In 2003, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, Vermont.Siegel, S. [https://www.mcall.com/2009/03/15/valley-native-returns-to-roots-for-novel/ Valley native returns to roots for novel] The Morning Call, March 15, 2009
Career
Novack's short stories have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Descant, and Chattahoochee Review.
Stephen King named Novack's story "Memphis" a "Distinguished Story" in The Best American Short Stories, published in 2007.Kinchen, D. [http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090315-kinchen-columnsbookreview.html Debut novel 'Precious' explores complex issues of marriage, children, friends and neighbors] The Huntington News, March 15, 2009 She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, and her nonfiction work "Hunk" was nominated as a runner-up for the 2006 Iowa Review Award,{{Cite web|url=http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/archived/mainpages/awards.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721185029/http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/archived/mainpages/awards.html|url-status=dead|title=2006 Iowa Review Award announcements|archive-date=21 July 2010}} and she is a recipient of the 2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship{{Cite web|url=http://isherwoodfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=26|title=The Christopher Isherwood Foundation|access-date=January 10, 2011|archive-date=December 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226111819/http://isherwoodfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=26|url-status=dead}} and 2011 Illinois Arts Council grant.{{Cite web|url=http://www.arts.illinois.gov/news/fy11-individual-artist-support-initiative-recipients|title = FY11 Individual Artist Support Initiative Recipients | Illinois Arts Council Agency}}
Her short story collection, Everyone But You, was published by Random House in 2011.[http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400066810 Catalog] randomhouse.com {{dead link|date=March 2024}} Her work has been translated into Dutch.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120225065730/http://www.boekerij.nl/result-titel.asp?ISBN=9789022552223 Novack, S. 2009. De Terugkeer (Trans. J. Dekker), Boekerij]
Personal life
Novack lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Works
=Novels=
- Precious (2009)
=Short stories=
- Everyone But You (2011)
References
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External links
- [http://www.sandranovack.com Official website]
- [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=89726 Random House profile]
- [http://www.curledup.com/intnovack.htm Curled Up With a Good Book interview], 2009
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American short story writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American women novelists
Category:American women short story writers
Category:Novelists from Pennsylvania
Category:Writers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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