Awards & Winners

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Date of Birth 19-March-1939
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a contemporary American writer. She grew up in Brooklyn, the second of three children of Jack M. Sharon, a lawyer and accountant, and Sarah Slatus Sharon; she married Harry Schwartz in 1957. She holds a BA from Barnard College, an MA from Bryn Mawr, and started work on a PhD at NYU. Schwartz has taught in many universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College. Lynne Sharon Schwartz lives in New York, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres, from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, and translation from Italian.

Awards by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lynne Sharon Schwartz.

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Leaving Brooklyn

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for First Novel Rough Strife