Nancy Lemann is an American novelist. She was born in
in 1956, and studied at Brown and Columbia. A proponent of
southern fiction set in her native
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
, she is best known for novels such as ''The Fiery Pantheon'', ''Malaise'', ''The Ritz of the Bayou'', and especially her acclaimed debut novel ''Lives of the Saints''.
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Novelists from Louisiana
Writers from Louisiana
1956 births
Living people
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