Lauren Belfer
| Lauren Belfer | |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education |
Buffalo Seminary, Swarthmore College, Columbia University |
| Genres | Historical Fiction |
| Notable work(s) | City of Light, A Fierce Radiance |
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[www.laurenbelfer.com www.laurenbelfer.com] |
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Lauren Beljak is an American author from Buffalo, New York, where she attended the Buffalo Seminary,[1] which would later become the girls boarding-school depicted in her debut novel, City of Light, about Buffalo, NY during the Pan-American Exposition.
At Swarthmore College, she majored in Medieval Studies. After graduating, she worked as a file clerk at an art gallery, a paralegal, an assistant photo editor at a newspaper, a fact checker at magazines, and as a researcher and associate producer on documentary films. She has an M.F.A. from Columbia University.
Her debut novel, City of Light, was a New York Times bestseller,[2] as well as a number one Book Sense pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award nominee, a New York Times Notable Book,[3] a Library Journal Best Book,[4] a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a bestseller in Great Britain,[5] has been translated into seven languages,[6] and was adapted into a stage play[7] by Anthony Clarvoe.
Belfer's fiction has also been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and Henfield Prize Stories. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review,[8][9] the Washington Post Book World,[10][11] the Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere.
Belfer is interviewed as an author/historian for the PBS documentary on Elbert Hubbard entitled Elbert Hubbard: An American Original.
Her second novel, A Fierce Radiance, a romantic historical thriller which follows the development of penicillin during World War II in New York City, was published by HarperCollins in June, 2010.
She lives in New York City.
[edit] External links
- Lauren Belfer Official Website
- HarperCollins
- Buffalo Seminary Official Website
- Further reading about City of Light
- City of Light - NYTimes Review
- City of Light - Time Magazine Review
- A Fierce Radiance - NYTimes Review
- A Fierce Radiance - Washington Post Review
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/496
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/bsp/paperfictioncompare.html?scp=17&sq=lauren%20belfer&st=cse
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/05/reviews/notable-fiction.html
- ^ http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA156099.html
- ^ http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=32297
- ^ http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=32297
- ^ http://www.buffalospreemagazine.com/archives/2001_0708/070801cityoflight.html
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/04/books/books-in-brief-fiction-793736.html?scp=3&sq=lauren%20belfer&st=cse
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/30/books/books-in-brief-fiction-218154.html?scp=10&sq=lauren+belfer&st=nyt
- ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/1149373701.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+22%2C+2006&author=Reviewed+by+Lauren+Belfer&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=T.3&desc=Murder%2C+He+Wired%3B+A+century+ago%2C+new+technology+helped+catch+a+killer+at+sea.
- ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/943017171.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+18%2C+2005&author=Reviewed+by+Lauren+Belfer&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=T.06&desc=Our+Bodies%2C+Ourselves%3B+Feisty%2C+liberated+women+clash+with+a+religious+bigot+in+Gilded+Age+New+York.
