Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944, in Kingsport, Tennessee) is an American author and novelist. Her first name is pronounced as if it were spelled Liza.

Biography

Alther graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in English literature in 1966. After a brief time in the publishing industry, she moved to Hinesburg, Vermont to raise her daughter. According to Ms. Alther, she wrote two novels, a host of short stories, and received "hundreds of rejection slips" between age 16 and 30, before "Kinflicks" was accepted for publication.

Alther is the author of five novels, "Kinflicks", "Original Sins", "Other Women", "Bedrock", and "Five Minutes In Heaven", as well as a small number of published short stories and many magazine articles.

Alther's newest book, to be published in spring 2007, will be a nonfiction work entitled "Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree--the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors" (ISBN 1-55970-832-8).

Bibliography

* "Kinflicks" (1975)
* "Original Sins" (1981)
* "Other Women" (1985)
* "Bedrock" (1990)
* "Five Minutes In Heaven" (1995)

External links

* [http://www.lisaalther.com/ Lisa Alther Official Home Page]
* [http://www.artvt.com/writers/alther/p_altherbio.htm An Autobiographical Essay]
* [http://www.artvt.com/writers/alther/p_altherintrws.htm An Interview with Lisa Alther]