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Biography
Amy Hempel was born in Chicago in 1951. She lived in Denver and San Francisco before moving to New York to work in publishing. With the publication of her first book of short stories, Reasons to Live (Knopf, 1985), Amy Hempel earned a reputation in the vanguard of American short story writers.
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One of the stories from that collection, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” is one of the most extensively anthologized stories of the last quarter century. Her three succeeding collections, At The Gates of The Animal Kingdom (Knopf, 1990); Tumble Home (Scribner, 1997) and The Dog of the Marriage (Scribner, 2005) received rave reviews and increased her high stature as a writer of short fiction.
The stories from all four previous collections weregathered in a single volume and published by Scribner in 2006.
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times. In addition, the collection won The Ambassador