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Lucy Jane Bledsoe is an American novelist and science writer. She was born on February 1, 1957 in Portland, Oregon. She attended the University of Oregon, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing. She then went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine.
Bledsoe is the author of several novels, including The Big Bang Symphony, A Thin Bright Line, and The Ice Cave. She has also written several non-fiction books, including The Wreckage of Paradise and The Hidden Sea. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic.
Bledsoe has received numerous awards for her writing, including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Whiting Award, and the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award. She currently lives in Berkeley, California. As of 2021, Lucy Jane Bledsoe's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.
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67 years old |
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1 February 1957 |
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Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
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United States |
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Lucy Jane Bledsoe Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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"It triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances." —New York Times Book Review
"Riveting new collection...fully realized characters; stories that stick to your ribs." —Toronto Star
"Stirring and deeply felt." —Kirkus Reviews
"Empowering and bold." —Publishers Weekly
"Bledsoe's novel is an absolute wonder. Combining a McCullers-like facility in letting her settings tell half the story with characterization and dialogue worthy of Harper Lee." —New York Journal of Books
"Author Lucy Jane Bledsoe is an impressively gifted novelist." —Midwest Book Review
"Fabulous feminist fiction." —Ms. Magazine
"A magnificent, searingly beautiful book, as insightful as it is compassionate." —Elizabeth Percer, All Stories Are Love Stories
Bledsoe's 2002 children's book Hoop Girlz, which is about a ten-year-old girl who loves playing basketball but doesn't make the school team, was selected as one of Booklist 's Top 10 Sports Books for Youth of the year and featured among Core Collection: Sports Fiction for Girls.
Bledsoe has written science curriculum for National Geographic and several other educational organizations, including the George Lucas Educational Foundation and the SETI Institute. From 1997 to 2003, she taught creative writing in the Masters of Creative Writing Graduate Program at the University of San Francisco.
In 1985, she received the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. In 1995, Bledsoe published Sweat: Stories and a Novella, which helped her garner her first Lambda Literary Award finalist title. In 1997, she wrote her first adult novel Working Parts, for which she received the 1998 Stonewall Book Award - the American Library Association Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Award for Literature. In 2002, Bledsoe was awarded a California Arts Council fellowship in literature.
Bledsoe was born into a large family in Portland, Oregon, United States, where she grew up. Bledsoe stated in an interview that she started writing stories when she was young and had always wanted to become a writer. She was inspired to write by her high school teacher. From 1975 to 1977, Bledsoe attended Williams College. She earned a B.A. at University of California at Berkeley in 1979.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe (born February 1, 1957 in Portland, Oregon, United States) is a novelist who has received many awards for her fiction, including two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships, a California Arts Council Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellowship, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the Saturday Evening Post Fiction Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, and a Pushcart nomination. She is a six-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
"Berkeley author Lucy Jane Bledsoe shows the sexy side of the 1950s in her new novel, A Thin Bright Line." —San Francisco Chronicle
