Mary Gaitskill
Author of Bad Behavior
About the Author
Mary Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky on November 11, 1954. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. She is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her novels include Veronica, The Mare, and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Her collections of short stories include show more Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Mary Gaitskill
The Other Place 4 copies
The Little Boy: A free eBook short from Mary Gaitskill, author of THE MARE (2016) 2 copies, 1 review
Tiny, Smiling Daddy 1 copy
Más companhias 1 copy
Associated Works
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 1,154 copies, 3 reviews
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contributor — 498 copies, 2 reviews
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introduction — 226 copies, 9 reviews
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributor — 146 copies, 4 reviews
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 138 copies, 1 review
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contributor — 129 copies, 1 review
Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers (1995) — Contributor — 124 copies
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contributor — 62 copies
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Contributor — 52 copies, 2 reviews
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contributor — 47 copies
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contributor — 38 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1954-11-11
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Places of residence
- Rhinebeck, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
San Francisco, California, USA
Marin County, California, USA - Education
- University of Michigan (BA)
- Occupations
- essayist
short story writer
novelist - Relationships
- Trachtenberg, Peter (husband, separated)
- Awards and honors
- Hopwood Award
Guggenheim Fellowship (2002)
Members
Reviews
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
After about a hundred pages, I gave up on this rudderless novel about a cast of unappealing, degraded characters.
½
I couldn’t even remember why I bought this book once I started reading it. The stories were horrible and very hard to read. Though I only made it through one and a half stories I felt as though my IQ points were dropping like flies. I couldn’t see any rhyme or reason for any of the stories that I read and there seemed to be only one main theme to each one and that was sex, and not the kind of sex that I really wanted to read about EVER.
Lists
Bull Tongue (2)
hopes (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 28
- Also by
- 37
- Members
- 4,741
- Popularity
- #5,307
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 125
- ISBNs
- 120
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 17
