December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007
American short story writer, poet, teacher and political activist
Author of "The Little Disturbances of Man", "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" and "The Collected Stories" (for which she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1995)
Awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction in 1994
Named the Poet Laureate of Vermont in 2003
American short story writer, poet, teacher and political activist
Author of "The Little Disturbances of Man", "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" and "The Collected Stories" (for which she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1995)
Awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction in 1994
Named the Poet Laureate of Vermont in 2003