Laura Furman
Professor Emeritus — B.A., 1968, Bennington College
Professor Emerita
Contact
- E-mail: ljfurman@mail.utexas.edu
- Office: CAL 18
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Biography
Laura Furman is the Susan Taylor McDaniel Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department. She received her BA from Bennington in 1960. Current research interests include fiction, non-fiction, and biography. She has been the series editor for The O.Henry Prize Stories since 2003, and has published many of her own works, including Drinking with the Cook (story collection); Ordinary Paradise (memoir); Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading (edited with Elinore Standard); Tuxedo Park (novel); Watch Time Fly (story collection); The Shadow Line (novel); The Glass House (story collection and novella). In February 2011, Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, will publish Professor Furman's new story collection, The Mother Who Stayed.
Courses taught:
E318L Fiction
E325 Creative Writing: Reading and Writing the Personal Essay
E325 Creative Writing: Reading and Writing Biography
E348 20th-Century Short Story-W
E379S Contemporary Short Story
E385N Creative Writing: Workshop in Personal Essay
E385N Creative Writing: Workshop in Biography
Awards/Honors:
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature (Fiction), 2008
President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2005-2006
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction, 1983
