Nancy Lemann is an American novelist. She was born in
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
in 1956, and studied at Brown and Columbia. A proponent of
southern fiction set in her native
Louisiana
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, she is best known for novels such as ''The Fiery Pantheon'', ''Malaise'', ''The Ritz of the Bayou'', and especially her acclaimed debut novel ''Lives of the Saints''.
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Novelists from Louisiana
Writers from Louisiana
1956 births
Living people
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