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Debra Monroe

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Debra Monroe is the author of four books of fiction, and two memoirs.

Her first book, The Source of Trouble, published in 1990, won the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award, and was acclaimed as a “fierce debut” that presents “ever-hopeful lost souls with engaging humor and sympathy” . Her second book of stories, A Wild, Cold State, published in 1995, was described by The Boston Globe as “fine and funky, marbled with warmth and romantic confusion, but not a hint of sentimentality.” When her first novel, Newfangled, was published in 1998, the Washington Post called it “rangy, thoughtful, ambitious, and widely, wildly knowledgeable, teasing out the tension between pop culture and private life.” Her fourth book, Shambles, published in 2004, was praised by the Texas Observer for “the depth as well as the heartbreaking particularity of the hellholes—real and imagined—that make Shambles a novel of graceful ease and substance.” Her first memoir about being the white mother of a black daughter in a small, rural Texas town, On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain, was published in June 2010 to national acclaim. Her second memoir, My Unsentimental Education, published in 2015, is a funny, literate account of how she moved almost too quickly from a working class childhood in the oddest of small towns to the professional class, meanwhile continuing to date a long series of what Kirkus Reviews calls "Mr. Completely Laughably Wrongs."

Debra Monroe’s work has been widely admired for its style, “prose that shimmers like a jazz solo, full of sass and danger” , and for its irreverent perspective on American life: “Her characters, like her prose, have hard edges. They also have big hearts, dark humor, and purely unique ways of opening themselves up for our inspection. This book makes you want to take the author out for a drink and tell her your troubles” . Her books have been widely reviewed and won many awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award, the John Gardner Fellowship, The Violet Crown Award, the Quarterly West Novella Competition, and more. They have appeared on “Best Books” lists in Elle magazine, Vanity Fair, O Magazine People magazine, and in Borders Bookstores’ “Original Voices” series, and she has been nominated for the National Book Award twice. She has published poems, stories, and essays in many magazines and journals, including the New York Times, The American Scholar, Salon, Guernica, and more. She was born in North Dakota and raised in Wisconsin. She has since lived in Kansas, Utah, North Carolina, and Texas, where she lives now, and she teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.

Debra Monroe

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Website
Go to Website
From Author's Website:

Debra Monroe is the author of four books of fiction, and two memoirs.

Her first book, The Source of Trouble, published in 1990, won the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award, and was acclaimed as a “fierce debut” that presents “ever-hopeful lost souls with engaging humor and sympathy” . Her second book of stories, A Wild, Cold State, published in 1995, was described by The Boston Globe as “fine and funky, marbled with warmth and romantic confusion, but not a hint of sentimentality.” When her first novel, Newfangled, was published in 1998, the Washington Post called it “rangy, thoughtful, ambitious, and widely, wildly knowledgeable, teasing out the tension between pop culture and private life.” Her fourth book, Shambles, published in 2004, was praised by the Texas Observer for “the depth as well as the heartbreaking particularity of the hellholes—real and imagined—that make Shambles a novel of graceful ease and substance.” Her first memoir about being the white mother of a black daughter in a small, rural Texas town, On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain, was published in June 2010 to national acclaim. Her second memoir, My Unsentimental Education, published in 2015, is a funny, literate account of how she moved almost too quickly from a working class childhood in the oddest of small towns to the professional class, meanwhile continuing to date a long series of what Kirkus Reviews calls "Mr. Completely Laughably Wrongs."

Debra Monroe’s work has been widely admired for its style, “prose that shimmers like a jazz solo, full of sass and danger” , and for its irreverent perspective on American life: “Her characters, like her prose, have hard edges. They also have big hearts, dark humor, and purely unique ways of opening themselves up for our inspection. This book makes you want to take the author out for a drink and tell her your troubles” . Her books have been widely reviewed and won many awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award, the John Gardner Fellowship, The Violet Crown Award, the Quarterly West Novella Competition, and more. They have appeared on “Best Books” lists in Elle magazine, Vanity Fair, O Magazine People magazine, and in Borders Bookstores’ “Original Voices” series, and she has been nominated for the National Book Award twice. She has published poems, stories, and essays in many magazines and journals, including the New York Times, The American Scholar, Salon, Guernica, and more. She was born in North Dakota and raised in Wisconsin. She has since lived in Kansas, Utah, North Carolina, and Texas, where she lives now, and she teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.

Books from Debra Monroe

On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family against the Grain

3.7/5 ( ratings)

My Unsentimental Education

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Source of Trouble

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Wild, Cold State

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Newfangled: A Novel

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Shambles: A Novel

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Glimmer Train Stories, #80

3.6/5 ( ratings)

24 Bar Blues: Two Dozen Tales of Bars, Booze, and the Blues

5/5 ( ratings)

Hold That Knowledge: Stories about Love from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser. Book 109)

5/5 ( ratings)

Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: An Anthology

5/5 ( ratings)
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