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Alice Adams


Born
August 14, 1926

Died
May 27, 1999

Genre
Short Stories, Literature & Fiction


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Alice Adams was an American novelist, short story writer, academic and university professor.

She was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and attended Radcliffe College, graduating in 1946. She married, and had a child, but her marriage broke up, and she spent several years as a single mother, working as a secretary. Her psychiatrist told her to give up writing and get remarried; instead she published her first novel, Careless Love (1966), and a few years later she published her first short story in The New Yorker. She wrote many novels but she's best known for her short stories, in collections such as After You've Gone ...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 3,220 ratings · 387 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors
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Caroline's Daughters
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The Stories of Alice Adams
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Almost Perfect
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The Last Lovely City: Stories
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After the War
3.27 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1989 — 14 editions
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Second Chances
3.26 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1988 — 23 editions
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Listening to Billie
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“A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents—our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.”
― Alice Adams, Beautiful Girl: Stories
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“What does it mean to love an animal, in my case a cat, in the fierce, entire, and unambivalent way that some of us do?”
― Alice Adams
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