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Lynne Schwartz Biography

Lynne Sharon Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attending Barnard College and graduate school at New York University; she left graduate school before completing her thesis to devote herself to writing

Schwartz is the author of twenty-three books that include the novels Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Rough Strife, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also published non-fiction, short stories, memoir, essays, and translations. Schwartz is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and translation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She is also a translator from Italian.

Schwartz has taught widely in the United States and abroad and currently teaches at the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the Columbia University School of the Arts.

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