"A Voice from the 'The Northern Capital of the Caribbean': An Interview with Moira Crone"
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Ibáñez Ibáñez, José Ramón![University of Almería authority University of Almería authority](/themes/Mirage2/images/autoridades/autoridad.png)
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2012-10-30Abstract
Born in 1952 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Moira Crone was educated at Smith College, where she coincided with one of her mentors, V.S. Pritchett, and at Johns Hopkins University. From that moment on, until today, Crone’s literary production has primarily focused on short fiction. Some of her stories have been published in anthologies such as "New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best in 2001", 2005, 2007, "Smith Voices", or "Various Gifts: Brooklyn Fiction of the Eighties" while many stories came out in renowned magazines such as "The New Yorker", "Ploughshares", "The Southern Review", "Ohio Review", just to name a few. Her literary production has also been widely acclaimed and Moira Crone has been the recipient of prestigious awards including the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Southern Fellowship of Writers in April 2009, or the 2004 Faulkner/Wisdom Prize for Novella for “The Ice Garden,” the opening story in her latest volume of short stories, "What Gets Into Us." I...
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Southern Literature
Twentieth-Century American Short Story
American short fiction