Review | The Collected Short Stories of Lydia Davis

Reported by Miami Herald on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 (on November 10, 2009)

These days, when literature springs from mere experience and memoirs are justified by a change in eating habits, it seems fitting to remark on the heritage of Lydia Davis. Her father, Robert Gorham Davis, was a literary critic and author. He taught literature at Harvard (where he urged Norman Mailer to submit his first short story to Story magazine), Smith (where he taught Sylvia Plath) and Columbia. He died in 1998. Davis' mother was also a writer, an active feminist and communist. She died in 2004. Davis was married to Paul Auster.

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