Aimee Bender Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Aimee Bender Biography

Aimee Bender is the author of six books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) which won the SCIBA award for best fiction, and an Alex Award, and The Color Master, a NY Times Notable book for 2013. Her latest novel, The Butterfly Lampshade, is forthcoming from Doubleday in July 2020. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages.

Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, and more, as well as heard on PRI's "This American Life"and "Selected Shorts".

She lives in Los Angeles with her family, and teaches creative writing at USC.

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