Renée Manfredi is an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while othe ...

. Manfredi was co-winner of the 1993

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for ''Where Love Leaves Us''. Born in 1962 in

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, she earned a BA at the

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and a MFA at

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Books

* ''Where Love Leaves Us'', short stories (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994). * ''Above the Thunder'', novel (San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2004). * ''Running Away with Frannie'', novel (San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2006).

References

* ''Contemporary Authors Online''. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000115781. 1962 births Living people Writers from Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh alumni American women novelists Indiana University Bloomington alumni Novelists from Pennsylvania 21st-century American women {{US-novelist-1960s-stub