Kate braverman biography

Kate Braverman (February 5, 1949 – October 12, 2019) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet.
Kate Braverman was born in Philadelphia, raised Jewish and working-class in what she called the slums of Los Angeles.
Kate Braverman was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

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Kate Braverman

Born

in The United States

February 01, 1950

Died

October 12, 2019

Website

http://www.katebraverman.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Kate Braverman (born 1950) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet, originally from Los Angeles, California, who has garnered great acclaim for works including the novels Lithium for Medea (1979), Palm Latitudes (1988), Wonders of the West (1993), and The Incantation of Frida K (2001). Her most significant work has been in stylistic hybrid forms built upon poems and rendered as short stories. She has published two books of short stories, "Squandering the Blue" (1990) and "Small Craft Warnings" (1997). She has also published four books of poetry. She has won three Best American Short Stories awards, an O. Henry Award, Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She was also the first rKate Braverman (born 1950) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet, originally from Los Angeles, California, who has g

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Kate Braverman

American novelist (1949–2019)

Kate Braverman (February 5, 1949 – October 12, 2019)^[1] was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Los Angeles was the focus for much of her writing.^[2]

Formative years

Kate Braverman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 5, 1949. She moved to Los Angeles in 1958 with her family.

Braverman earned a B.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in English from Sonoma State University.^[3]

Career

Braverman was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles,^[4] and staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program.

She also taught a private workshop that included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley.

Awards

Braverman won three Best American Short Stories awards, an O. Henry Award, and a Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She was also the first recipient of Graywolf Press's Creative Nonfict

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Kate Braverman, whose poetry and prose captured a dark Los Angeles, dies in Santa Fe, N.M.

Kate Braverman, a poet, novelist and short-story writer whose work was fueled by a sprawling Los Angeles, has died. She was 70.

Braverman died Sunday in her home in Santa Fe, N.M., novelist Janet Fitch said about her mentor.

“She was vivid and intense. She was uncompromising,” said Fitch, who called Braverman “a high priestess of literature.”

Braverman wrote about extreme female protagonists and her oscillating love and loathing for the city that raised her: Los Angeles inspired much of her writing. She published several books of poetry and countless short stories, including “Mrs. Jordan’s Summer Vacation,” which won the Editor’s Choice Raymond Carver Short-Story Award, and “Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta,” which earned her an O. Henry Award in 1992.

Her book “Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir,” won the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.

She is perhaps best known for her fever dream novel “Lithium for Medea.” The 1979 work — described by Joan Didi