Christine Sneed is an American author — the novels ''Little Known Facts'' (2013), ''Paris, He Said'' (2015), and ''Please Be Advised'' (2022), and the story collections ''Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry'' (2010), ''The Virginity of Famous Men'' (2016), and ''Direct Sunlight'' (2023) — as well as a graduate-level fiction professor at Northwestern University who also teaches in Regis University's low-residency MFA program. She is the recipient of the
Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, the John C. Zacharis First Book Award (via ''
Ploughshares''), the Society of Midland Authors Award, the 2009
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Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award in both 2011 and 2017.
Life
Born September 24, 1971, Sneed grew up in
Green Bay, Wisconsin
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, and
Libertyville, Illinois
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. She earned an undergraduate degree from
Georgetown University, where she studied French language and literature, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from
Indiana University Bloomington.
Sneed's work has appeared in the anthologies ''
The Best American Short Stories 2008'', ''The PEN/
O. Henry
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Prize Stories 2012'', and ''New Stories from the Midwest 2016''; the literary journals ''Ploughshares'', ''New England Review'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Meridian'', ''Glimmer Train'', ''Pleiades'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', and ''The Greensboro Review''; and ''
The New York Times'', ''
San Francisco Chronicle'', and ''
Chicago Tribune'' as well as other publications.
She lives in
Pasadena, California
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I ...
.
Works
* ''Direct Sunlight'' (
TriQuarterly), June 15, 2023.
* ''Please Be Advised'' (7.13 Books), October 18, 2022.
* ''The Virginity of Famous Men'' (
Bloomsbury
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Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
), September 13, 2016.
* ''Paris, He Said'' (Bloomsbury), May 5, 2015.
* ''Little Known Facts'' (Bloomsbury), February 12, 2013.
* ''Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry'' (
University of Massachusetts Press), November 30, 2010.
* ''The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012'' (Anchor); short story "The First Wife," April 17, 2012.
* ''The Best American Short Stories 2008'' (Houghton Mifflin); short story "Quality of Life," October 8, 2008.
as editor:
* ''Love in the Time of Time's Up'' (Tortoise Books), October 4, 2022.
Reviews
*https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/books/review/christine-sneed-virginity-of-famous-men.html?_r=0 (NYTBR, September 23, 2016)
*http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/books/review/paris-he-said-by-christine-sneed.html?_r=0 (NYTBR, June 5, 2015)
*http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/little-known-facts-by-christine-sneed.html?pagewanted=all (NYTBR, cover review, February 24, 2013)
*
"Interview with the Second Wife" by Christine Sneed ''The Collagist'', Lori Ostlund
Awards and honors
*Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award (2011 and 2017)
*Illinois Reads selection (2016)
*Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Finalist (2016)
*Society of Midland Authors Award, Best Adult Fiction (2013)
*21st Century Award, Chicago Public Library Foundation (2013)
*''Chicago Magazines Best New Book by a New Author (2013)
*O. Henry Prize (2012)
*John C. Zacharis Award—Ploughshares' First Book Award (2011)
*Art Seidenbaum/Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Finalist, First fiction category (2011)
*Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, long-listed (2011)
*Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction (2009)
References
External links
*http://www.christinesneed.com/
Review of ''The Virginity of Famous Men'' ''Los Angeles Review of Books''
''Chicago Tribune''
Interview with Christine Sneed ''Zyzzyva''
An Interview with Christine Sneed ''EPL''
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American short story writers
DePaul University faculty
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences alumni