Lucy Ellmann

(b.1956)

Novelist Lucy Ellmann was born on 18 October 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of biographer Richard Ellmann and writer Mary Ellmann (née Donahue). She moved to England at the age of 13 and was educated at Falmouth School of Art (Foundation degree, 1975), Essex University (BA, 1980), and the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA, 1981).

Awards: James Tait Black (2019), Goldsmiths (2019) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Sweet Desserts (1988)
   Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (1991)
   Man or Mango? (1998)
   Dot in the Universe (2003)
   Doctors and Nurses (2006)
   Mimi (2013)
   Ducks, Newburyport (2017)

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Awards

	2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Ducks, Newburyport
	2019 Goldsmiths Prize : Ducks, Newburyport
	1988 Guardian Fiction Prize : Sweet Desserts

Award nominations

	2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (nominee) : Ducks, Newburyport
	2019 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Ducks, Newburyport
	2003 Wodehouse Prize (nominee) : Dot in the Universe
	1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Man or Mango?

Lucy Ellmann recommends

The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman (2023)
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"How can women bear America? The only answer, I think, is for them all to leave. This wise, complex and fascinating novel touches on that possibility."

After Sappho (2022)
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"This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!"

Bird Summons (2019)
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"BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild."

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