Ellis Avery

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Ellis Avery


Born
October 25, 1972

Died
February 15, 2019

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The only writer ever to have received the American Library Association Stonewall Award for Fiction twice, Ellis Avery is the author of two novels, a memoir, and a book of poetry. Her novels, The Last Nude (Riverhead 2012) and The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead 2006) have also received Lambda, Ohioana, and Golden Crown awards, and her work has been translated into six languages. She teaches fiction writing at Columbia University and out of her home in the West Village.

Raised in Columbus, Ohio and Princeton, New Jersey, Avery’s first love as a reader was the high fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. LeGuin. In her teenage years, she discovered writers like Annie Dillard and Virginia Woolf, whose lush specificity tempted her back to the waking wo
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Average rating: 3.86 · 32,844 ratings · 1,020 reviews · 10 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Last Nude

3.92 avg rating — 28,663 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions
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The Teahouse Fire

3.48 avg rating — 3,735 ratings — published 2000 — 30 editions
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On Fear (Kindle Single) (Th...

3.86 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2015
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The Sapphire and the Tooth ...

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The Smoke Week: Sept. 11-21...

3.88 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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The Family Tooth: A Memoir

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Goodbye, Ruby (Kindle Singl...

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Tree of Cats

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Ostatni akt

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Die Tage des Rauchs

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The Sapphire and the Tooth ... On Fear (Kindle Single) Goodbye, Ruby (Kindle Single) The Family Tooth: A Memoir
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“I found another girl to pose for Myrto and then I didn't think about Rafaela much, not until a spring day years later. Or rather, I thought about her with an occasional, impersonal pang. Have you ever had a favorite cafe close? It was like that.”
Ellis Avery, The Last Nude

“I watched those two girls beside me, the very fact of them: their overlapping hands, their complicit laughter. I had never forgiven Yukako for not being in love with me. I forgave her.”
Ellis Avery, The Teahouse Fire

“When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. I walked into the shrine through the red arch and struck the bell. I bowed twice. I clapped twice. I whispered to the foreign goddess and bowed again. And then I heard the shouts and the fire. What I asked for? Any life but this one.”
Ellis Avery, The Teahouse Fire
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