Brett Ellen Block (born in
Summit, New Jersey
Summit is the northernmost City (New Jersey), city of Union County, New Jersey, Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located within the New York metropolitan area. Situated on a ridge in north Jersey, northern–central Jersey, centra ...
) is an American novelist and
short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...
writer.
Life
Block was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...
, where she was awarded the Hopwood and Haugh Prizes for Fiction Writing. She went on to earn graduate degrees at the
Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the
University of East Anglia
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’s Fiction Writing Program.
Her debut collection of short stories, "Destination Known," won the Drue Heinz Literary Prize, and she is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel ''The Grave of God’s Daughter'' and the Macavity Award-nominated thriller ''The Lightning Rule''.
Writing under the name "Ellen Block" she penned the novel ''The Language of Sand'' and its sequel, ''The Definition of Wind.''
She lives in Los Angeles.
Awards
*2001
Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for ''Destination Known''
*2003
Michener-Copernicus Fellowship
Works
Short stories
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Mystery
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References
External links
Official website
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Living people
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
American women short story writers
American short story writers
Writers from Summit, New Jersey
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Hopwood Award winners
1973 births
21st-century American women