Lorraine Adams

Lorraine Adams is an American journalist, and novelist.

She was a staff writer for the Washington Post,^[1] and the Dallas Morning News. Once a resident of Washington, D.C., she now lives in Harlem, New York City^[2][3]

Awards

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 2006 VCU First Novelist Award^[5]
• 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting^[6]

Works

• "Almost Famous", Washington Monthly, April 2002
• Harbor, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 978-1-4000-7688-8
• The Room and the Chair, Knopf, 2010, ISBN 978-0-307-27241-6

Reviews

Lorraine Adams is a singular and important American writer. "The Room and the Chair" establishes this without question: It is remarkable for its ambitions and its achievements. It's a war novel, a reporter's novel and a psychological thriller. It encompasses the broadest outlines of our world. It is also Adams' second novel, and it is gutsier and throws a wider net than the topical and gorgeously written "Harbor," her first. Both books are about U.S. involvement in the Middle East, about psychological and political blowback, about what happens when you wage a war and then suddenly it slaps you back, blindsides you.^[7]

References

External links

• "Turning Secret Intelligence to Fiction", The Wall Street Journal, ALEXANDRA ALTER, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
• "Five Debut Novelists. One Rock 'n' Reading Tour.", Powell's
• "The Leonard Lopate Show", WNYC, March 18, 2010
• "Up Front", The New York Times, THE EDITORS, May 18, 2008
• Interview about The Room and the Chair, Armchair/Shotgun, March 2010