Laura Furman
Born	1945 New York City
Occupation	novelist, short story writer, editor
Nationality	United States

Laura Furman (born 1945) is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the O. Henry Awards prize story collection. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She has written three collections of stories (The Glass House, Watch Time Fly, and Drinking with the Cook), two novels (The Shadow Line and Tuxedo Park), and a memoir (Ordinary Paradise). Furman has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship. She founded American Short Fiction, which was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award.

She is currently Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Books 1.2 Short stories 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Bibliography

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[edit] Books

• Series Editor, The O.Henry Prize Stories, 2003—
• Drinking with the Cook (story collection)
• Ordinary Paradise (memoir)
• Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading (edited with Elinore Standard)
• Tuxedo Park (novel)
• Watch Time Fly (story collection)
• The Shadow Line (novel)
• The Glass House (story collection and novella)

[edit] Short stories

• "Sunny" The New Yorker 60/50 (28 January 1985): 29-34

[edit] See also

• O. Henry Awards

[edit] External links

• Faculty page at the University of Texas at Austin
• Page at O. Henry Prize Stories website
• Article about Furman at The Austin Chronicle

Persondata
NAME	Furman, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	novelist, short story writer, editor
DATE OF BIRTH	1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City, New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH