Frances Sherwood

Frances Sherwood (born June 4, 1940) is an American writer, novelist, and educator. Sherwood has published four novels and one book of short stories. Her 1992 novel, Vindication, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It has been translated into twelve languages.[1]

Frances Sherwood
Born (1940-06-04) June 4, 1940
Washington, D.C.
OccupationNovelist, Author, Educator
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationHoward University, New York University, Johns Hopkins University
Alma materBrooklyn College
Notable awards
Years active1968 (1968)-present
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Biography

Born June 4, 1940, in Washington, DC, and raised in Monterey, California, Sherwood is the daughter of William and Barbara Sherwood. She is married to photographer Fred Slaski. Sherwood has three children from a previous marriage to Reynold Madoo. Reynold Madoo is from Trinidad and was a student with her at Howard University in the early 1960s. They were married for over 20 years. [2]

Sherwood attended Howard University in the early 1960s on an Agnes and Eugene Meyer Scholarship before earning her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1967. She then pursued graduate study at New York University. She earned an M.A. in creative writing at The Johns Hopkins University in 1975. She continued the study of fiction writing at Stanford University after winning a Stegner Fellowship in 1976 (as Frances Madoo).

Sherwood’s first book-length publication was a short story collection, Everything You’ve Heard Is True (1989). Since then, she has published four novels: Vindication (1992), Green (1995), The Book of Splendor (2002) and Night of Sorrows (2006). Sherwood has had two stories included in O. Henry Award collections (1989, 1992) and one story in The Best American Short Stories (2000, selected by E. L. Doctorow). Twenty-four of her short stories have been published in magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly ("Basil the Dog," September 1999), Zoetrope, and TriQuarterly. "Basil the Dog" was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1999.[3]

In 1986, Sherwood was hired as an assistant professor of English at Indiana University South Bend, where she taught creative writing and journalism. She was promoted to professor of English in 1994.

Frances Sherwood has said that she considers herself a “new historical” novelist, a writer who displaces current political and psychological issues onto earlier times and exotic locales.[4]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Vindication (novel), Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1993. ISBN 978-0393325386
  • Green (novel), Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1995. ISBN 978-0374166731
  • The Book of Splendor (novel), W.W. Norton (New York, NY), 2002. ISBN 978-0393324587
  • Night of Sorrows, W.W. Norton (New York, NY), 2006. ISBN 978-0393058253

Story collections

Anthologies
  • "History," in Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards, William Abraham, ed., Anchor Books, 1989. ISBN 9780385246347
  • "Demiurges," in Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards, William Abraham, ed., Anchor Books, 1992. ISBN 9780385421928
  • "Basil the Dog," in The Best American Short Stories 2000, Katrina Kenison and E.L. Doctorow, eds., Mariner Books, 2000. ISBN 9780395926864
  • "History," in So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series, John T. Irwin and Jean McGarry, eds., Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. ISBN 9780801881787

Notes
  1. "Emeriti, Former & Visiting Writers". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. "Sherwood, Frances". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. "Basil the Dog". Nebula Awards. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  4. "Frances Sherwood". The Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
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