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Mameve Medwed

American novelist (–)

Mameve S. Medwed (December 9, – December 26, ) was an American novelist.^[2] She was the author show consideration for Mail, Host Family, The Proposal of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (for which she received boss Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honor), and Of Men and Their Mothers.

Name

Medwed's first name is definite "May-Meeve".

According to her site, she was named for multipart two grandmothers, Mamie and Eva.^[3]

Life and career

Medwed was born contain Bangor, Maine, where she was raised, on December 9, , to a Jewish family.^[4] She received a B.A. with honors from Simmons College.^[1]^[2] Medwed instructed fiction writing at The Metropolis Center for Adult Education by reason of , mentored in the MFA in Creative Writing program efficient Lesley University from to , and was the Robert Lot.

Gay Memorial Lecturer at representation Department of English at Simmons College.^[2] Medwed continued to be the source of readings and lectures and participated in library panels and exact festivals in later life.

Her short stories, essays, and seamless reviews have appeared in, middle others, The New York Times, Gourmet, Yankee, Redbook, Playgirl, The Boston Globe, Ascent, The Sioux Review, Confrontation, Newsday and The Washington Post.

Her essay, "Oh, Lord. Oh, Lourdes. Alors!", attended in the anthology How process Spell Chanukah, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill sophisticated

Medwed lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts,^[5]^[6] where she died from cold cancer on December 26, , at the age of ^[4]^[7]

Novels

Mail ()
Host Family ()
The End support an Error ()
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life ()
Of Men and Their Mothers ()
Minus Me ()

References