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Name: Amy Hempel
Birth Date: December 14, 1951
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Amy Hempel
4,811 words, approx. 16 pages
"There's a way in which you can make the readers laugh until suddenly they're crying and they don't know what hit them," says Amy Hempel of her first collection of short stories, Reasons to Live (1985). Through three collections, Hempel has pioneered a...


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Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Hempel, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, is a former student of Gordon Lish, in whose workshop she wrote several of...


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The Boston Globe
Amy Hempel's Stories: A Little Less Minimalism, Please
03/08/1990: 721 words, approx. 2 pages
AT THE GATES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM By Amy Hempel Knopf, 137 pages, $17.95 The women in Amy Hempel's stories are scrappers and survivors, maneuvering through life as though it were a long ride on the LA freeway (emotional sideswipes or hit-and-runs are...
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Al Green, Gordon Lish, And Cadavers: Amy Hempel Talks With Bookforum
04/01/2006: 2,976 words, approx. 10 pages
Speaking about Amy Hempel's short stories, the novelist William Kennedy once lauded her ability to "leave out all the right things." In four collections published in the past twenty years, Hempel has revealed herself to be a woman of few words, with some tales...
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The New York Observer
Friday, January 4th
1/1/2008: 413 words, approx. 1 pages
Into the media wasteland that is the first week of January plops One Missed Call, a horror film starring Ed Burns—Mr. Christy Turlington to you, pal!—which is unworthy of even a marketing campaign (Mr. Burns is still hot, but apparently no longer making movies fit...
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Hempel lives to write, writes to live
5/5/2007: 1,155 words, approx. 4 pages
Amy Hempel, short story writer, is spending a rainy morning at a Madison Avenue diner.She is 55 years old. Her flowing hair is silvery-white. Her speech is clear, but careful. She sometimes edits herself as she talks or advances her thoughts as if placing one...
 


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