Moira Crone
Encyclopedia
Moira Crone is an American
fiction author. She was born in the tobacco
country in eastern North Carolina
. She is the author of three collections of short fiction and a novel.
Crone's stories have been classified as "Southern Gnostic", and as exemplifying the spirit of the new south. Her latest collection What Gets Into Us recreates the life of a small town in the Carolinas, as seen across racial and class lines over a period from the 1950s to the present. Her work has been compared to Flannery O'Connor
and Sherwood Anderson
.
Moira Crone lives in New Orleans and is a professor at Louisiana State University
where she served as director of the MFA program. She is a past winner of the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
and has subsequently served as one of its judges. In 2009 she was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award in Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in recognition of her body of work. In the citation, Allan Gurganus
wrote, "Moira Crone is a fable maker with a musical ear, a plenitude of nerve, and epic heart."
Crone's daughter, Anya Kamenetz
, is a journalist and author.
Crone is married to Rodger Kamenetz
, an author who is also a professor at LSU.
United States
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fiction author. She was born in the tobacco
Tobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...
country in eastern North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
. She is the author of three collections of short fiction and a novel.
Crone's stories have been classified as "Southern Gnostic", and as exemplifying the spirit of the new south. Her latest collection What Gets Into Us recreates the life of a small town in the Carolinas, as seen across racial and class lines over a period from the 1950s to the present. Her work has been compared to Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...
and Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer. His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, J. D. Salinger, and Amos Oz.-Early life:Anderson was born in Clyde, Ohio,...
.
Moira Crone lives in New Orleans and is a professor at Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
where she served as director of the MFA program. She is a past winner of the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is one of America's leading literary competitions and has been presenting awards in fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1993. The event is sponsored by the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society of New Orleans...
and has subsequently served as one of its judges. In 2009 she was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award in Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in recognition of her body of work. In the citation, Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina. His writing has been compared to the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, who also were identified with the American South.-Biography: Gurganus was...
wrote, "Moira Crone is a fable maker with a musical ear, a plenitude of nerve, and epic heart."
Crone's daughter, Anya Kamenetz
Anya Kamenetz
Anya Kamenetz is an American writer living in Brooklyn, New York City. She is a staff writer for Fast Company magazine and a columnist for Tribune Media . During 2005 she wrote a column for The Village Voice called "Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young"...
, is a journalist and author.
Crone is married to Rodger Kamenetz
Rodger Kamenetz
Rodger Kamenetz is an American poet and author. He was born in Baltimore and educated at Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins University...
, an author who is also a professor at LSU.
Published works
- What Gets Into Us(2006, Univ. of Mississippi) ISBN 1578067723
- Dream State (1998, Univ. of Mississippi), ISBN 1578060974
- A Period of Confinement (1987, Putnam) ISBN 0060971088
- The Winnebago Mysteries (1982, Fiction Collective). ISBN 0914590693