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Lorrie Moore


Born
in Glens Falls, New York, The United States
January 13, 1957

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LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Average rating: 3.76 · 106,524 ratings · 13,482 reviews · 70 distinct worksSimilar authors
Birds of America: Stories

4.09 avg rating — 16,277 ratings — published 1998 — 44 editions
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Self-Help

4.12 avg rating — 15,186 ratings — published 1985 — 46 editions
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A Gate at the Stairs

3.17 avg rating — 18,577 ratings — published 2009 — 46 editions
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Who Will Run the Frog Hospi...

3.83 avg rating — 13,881 ratings — published 1994 — 56 editions
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Bark

3.60 avg rating — 8,939 ratings — published 2014 — 37 editions
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Like Life

4.06 avg rating — 5,512 ratings — published 1990 — 34 editions
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I Am Homeless If This Is No...

3.30 avg rating — 6,134 ratings — published 2023 — 21 editions
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Anagrams

3.92 avg rating — 4,943 ratings — published 1986 — 30 editions
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The Collected Stories

4.38 avg rating — 1,102 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
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Quotes by Lorrie Moore  (?)
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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
Lorrie Moore

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
Lorrie Moore, Like Life

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The Help
 
  1127 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
 
  655 votes 10.0%

Her Fearful Symmetry
 
  321 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
 
  316 votes 4.8%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
 
  309 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
 
  293 votes 4.5%

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
 
  275 votes 4.2%

Fool
 
  232 votes 3.6%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
 
  228 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
 
  226 votes 3.5%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
 
  224 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked
 
  206 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone
 
  187 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger
 
  146 votes 2.2%

South of Broad
 
  144 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters
 
  141 votes 2.2%

Pygmy
 
  138 votes 2.1%

Let the Great World Spin
 
  134 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You
 
  131 votes 2.0%

Little Bee
 
  126 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn
 
  119 votes 1.8%

Drood
 
  107 votes 1.6%

The Children's Book
 
  104 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife
 
  103 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs
 
  96 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence
 
  91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic
 
  77 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
 
  70 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply
 
  70 votes 1.1%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
 
  62 votes 1.0%

The School of Essential Ingredients
 
  61 votes 0.9%

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