Lorraine Adams
Encyclopedia
Lorraine Adams is an American journalist
, and novelist.
She was a staff writer for the Washington Post, and the Dallas Morning News.
She lives in Washington, D.C.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, and novelist.
She was a staff writer for the Washington Post, and the Dallas Morning News.
She lives in Washington, D.C.
Awards
- 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2006 VCU First Novelist Award
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative ReportingPulitzer Prize for Investigative ReportingThe Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in print journalism...
Works
- "Almost Famous", Washington Monthly, April 2002
- Harbor, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 9781400076888
- The Room and the Chair, Knopf, 2010, ISBN 9780307272416
Reviews
Lorraine Adams is a singular and important American writer. "The Room and the Chair" establishes this without question: It is remarkable for its ambitions and its achievements. It's a war novel, a reporter's novel and a psychological thriller. It encompasses the broadest outlines of our world. It is also Adams' second novel, and it is gutsier and throws a wider net than the topical and gorgeously written "Harbor," her first. Both books are about U.S. involvement in the Middle East, about psychological and political blowback, about what happens when you wage a war and then suddenly it slaps you back, blindsides you.
External links
- "Turning Secret Intelligence to Fiction", The Wall Street Journal, ALEXANDRA ALTER, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
- "Five Debut Novelists. One Rock 'n' Reading Tour.", Powell's
- "The Leonard Lopate Show", WNYC, March 18, 2010
- "Up Front", The New York Times, THE EDITORS, May 18, 2008
- Interview about The Room and the Chair, Armchair/Shotgun, March 2010