About Sandra Thompson
Born 1943. Sandra Thompson is a novelist.
Sandra Thompson (born Chicago) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist.
Life She was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois. She graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, and from Brooklyn College with an MFA, where she studied with Jonathan Baumbach. She taught at the University of South Florida and at New College of Florida.
She began her career at Magazine Management Co. in New York as editor of True Secrets. She was an editor, writer and columnist for the St. Petersburg Times. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize .
She lives in Tampa, Florida, with her husband Chris Sherman; her daughter, Alex, lives in New York City.
Awards 1984 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Works
Memoir "Dot, a Life,"
Anthologies
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· DBpedia: Sandra Thompson (writer)
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