Sara Houghteling (born 1977) is an American novelist and educator.

Biography

She was born in 1977 and graduated from

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in 1999. She received her Master's in Fine Arts in creative writing from the

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in 2003. She received a

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to Paris, first prize in the Avery Jules Hopwood Novel Contest, and a

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fellowship. She taught high school English at Marin Academy.Random House
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In 2009, she became engaged to fellow Harvard alumnus and writer Daniel Mason, author of ''The Piano Tuner and A Far Country''."Sara Houghteling tells all"
/ref> After focusing on lost art looted during World War II for her first novel, she is currently writing her second book on a pianist searching for Hindemith's lost piano concerto after ruining his right hand practicing Brahms' Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major.Interview: "Sara Houghteling schools us on art history"
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''Pictures at an Exhibition''

Houghteling's first novel, ''Pictures at an Exhibition'', was published in 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf. It won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and has also been released as an audio book, read by Mark Bramhall.

References

External links

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Short stories by Sara Houghteling
in Harvard Magazine

in ''The New York Times''
Art and Arms - An interview with Houghteling
at Guernica Magazine {{DEFAULTSORT:Houghteling, Sara 1977 births Living people 21st-century American novelists Harvard College alumni University of Michigan alumni American women novelists 21st-century American women writers