Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel ( born November 16, 1951 in Washington DC ) is an American author and university professor.
Biography
After her schooling bird studied at The Catholic University of America, where she reached her Bachelor 1974 and from 1974 to 1977 at Cornell University. Since 2003, Vogel taught as a high school teacher of literature at Brown University.
For her novel How I learned to drive, she received the Pulitzer Prize. The novel deals with issues such as child abuse and incest. Furthermore, bird wrote the play The Baltimore Waltz, for which she received the 1992 Obie Award. The work dedicated to her brother. Other works of bird are hot'n Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Mineola Twins and The Oldest Profession.
In 2004 she received the Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. September 26, 2004 married bird in Truro, Massachusetts Anne Fausto - Sterling, a Hochschullehrin.
Works
- Swan Song of Sir Henry, 1974
- Meg, 1977
- Apple Brown Betty, 1979
- Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief, 1979
- Bertha in Blue, 1981
- The Oldest Profession, 1981
- And Baby Makes Seven, 1986
- The Baltimore Waltz, 1992
- Hot ' N Throbbing, 1994
- The Mineola Twins, 1996
- How I Learned To Drive, 1997
- The Long Christmas Ride Home, 2004