Lisa Alther

• Born: 1944
• Birthplace: Kingsport, TN

Novelist Lisa Alther graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in English literature in 1966. She worked for a while at a publishing house in New York before moving to Vermont, where she has lived for more than 30 years. She taught Southern Fiction at St. Michael's College in Winooski, VT.

Alther has written five novels and a novella. She has said that she tries to find the "human reality behind the cultural stereotypes," and she uses humor to achieve that.

Most Famous Works

• Kinflicks (1975)
• Original Sins (1981)
• Other Women (1984)
• Bedrock (1990)
• Five Minutes in Heaven (1995)

Quotes:

"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944, in Kingsport, Tennessee) is an American author and novelist. Her first name is pronounced as if it were spelled Liza.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 Reviews 4 See also 5 External links

Biography

She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in English literature in 1966. After a brief time in the publishing industry, she moved to Hinesburg, Vermont to raise her daughter. According to Ms. Alther, she wrote two novels, a host of short stories, and received "hundreds of rejection slips" between age 16 and 30, before Kinflicks was accepted for publication.

Alther is the author of five novels, Kinflicks, Original Sins, Other Women, Bedrock, and Five Minutes In Heaven, as well as a small number of published short stories and many magazine articles.

Alther's most recent book, published in spring 2007, is a nonfiction work entitled Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree--the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors (ISBN 1-55970-832-8).

Bibliography

• Kinflicks (1975)
• Original Sins (1981)
• Other Women (1985)
• Bedrock (1990)
• Five Minutes In Heaven (1995)
• Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree--the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors (2007)

Reviews

• Other Women - briefly noted in The New Yorker 60/49 (21 January 1985) : 94

See also

• Melungeon

External links

• Lisa Alther Official Home Page
• An Autobiographical Essay
• An Interview with Lisa Alther

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