Lannan Foundation

Lorrie Moore was born in Glen Falls, New York, and was educated at St Lawrence and Cornell Universities. Her books include Self-Help, Anagrams, The Forgotten Helper, Like Life, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital and Birds of America.

She has received numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts award in 1989, the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1989, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1991 and a Lannan Writing Fellowship in 2001.

Moore is currently Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.