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Christine Sneed

Biography

Christine Sneed

Christine Sneed is the author of LITTLE KNOWN FACTS. She has a creative writing MFA from Indiana University and teaches creative writing at DePaul University, Northwestern University and Pacific University. PORTRAITS OF A FEW OF THE PEOPLE I'VE MADE CRY won AWP's 2009 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, first-fiction category, was named the Chicago Writer's Association Book of the Year, and the recipient of Ploughshares' 2011 first-book prize, the John C. Zacharis Award. It was also long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and named one of the seven best books of the year by Time Out Chicago. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Notre Dame Review and a number of other journals.

Christine Sneed

Books by Christine Sneed

The Virginity of Famous Men: Stories
by Christine Sneed - Fiction, Short Stories

THE VIRGINITY OF FAMOUS MEN features protagonists attempting to make peace with the choices --- both personal and professional --- they have so far made. Long intrigued by love and loneliness, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed leads readers through emotional landscapes both familiar and uncharted. These probing stories are explorations of the compassionate and passionate impulses that are inherent in --- and often the source of --- both abiding joy and serious distress in every human life.

Paris, He Said
by Christine Sneed - Fiction

Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she will become if she meets her artistic potential. Laurent, however, seems to have other women in his life. Jayne, too, has an ex-boyfriend, much closer to her own age, for whom she still has feelings.

Little Known Facts
by Christine Sneed - Fiction

The people who orbit around actor Renn Ivins --- his girlfriends, children, ex-wives, those on the periphery --- long to experience the glow of his fame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less important extensions of their father. They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them.