A.M. Homes
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A. M. Homes
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| Born |
December 18, 1961 Washington, D.C., US |
| Occupation | Fiction writer, memoirist, screenwriter |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1989 – present |
| Notable works |
The End of Alice (1996) |
| Children | Juliet Homes |
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Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961, Washington, D.C.) is an American writer. She is best known for her controversial novels and unusual short stories, which feature extreme situations and characters. Notably, her The End of Alice (1996) is a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer.
Adopted at birth, Homes met her biological parents for the first time when she was 31, and published a memoir, The Mistress's Daughter (2007) about her exploration of her expanded "family."
Her most recent novel, May We Be Forgiven, was published by Viking Books on September 27, 2012. The first chapter of the novel was published in Granta′s 100th issue in 2008, edited by William Boyd, and was selected by Salman Rushdie for The Best American Short Stories 2008. The novel won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013.
Homes was born in 1961 in Washington, DC to a single woman who got pregnant during an affair with her older, married boss. Homes was put up for adoption immediately after birth and reared by her adoptive parents in the Washington metropolitan area. She did not meet her biological parents until she was 31, when her mother first tracked her down.
Homes received her Bachelor of Arts in 1985 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with the author Grace Paley. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Homes has written both short stories and novels; the former published in leading magazines such as Granta, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and BOMB Magazine.
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