Spring 2006

Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories. Moore won the 1998 O. Henry Award for her short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here,” published in The New Yorker on January 27, 1997. In 1999, Moore was named as the winner of The Irish Times International Fiction Prize for Birds of America. In 2004, she was selected as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, for outstanding achievement in that genre.