Ladette Randolph is an American author and editor.
Ladette Randolph is the author of five books: three novels: ''Private Way', Haven’s Wake'' and ''A Sandhills Ballad'', a short story collection, ''This is Not the Tropics'', and a memoir, ''Leaving the Pink House''. She is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal
Ploughshares
''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Bos ...
at
Emerson College and co-owner of the manuscript consulting firm Randolph Lundine. A long-time Nebraskan, she spent her childhood in the same part of west-central
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
where her family lived for five generations. She now lives in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
with her husband Noel.
Awards
Ladette Randolph is the recipient of four
Nebraska Book Awards, a
Rona Jaffe
Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 – December 30, 2005) was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003. During the 1960s, she also wrote cultural pieces for ''Cosmopolitan''.
Biography
Jaffe was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1 ...
grant, a
Pushcart Prize, a
Virginia Faulkner award, and a citation from Best New American Voices.
Works
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Private Way'. University of Nebraska Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1-4962-3119-2
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Sandhill Ballad'. University of Nebraska Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8263-4685-8.
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Editor
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References
External links
Official website
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Living people
American women writers
Emerson College faculty
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women