Lannan Foundation

Lydia Davis is the author a novel, End of the Story, and five collections of stories, including Almost No Memory, Break It Down, and Sketches for a Life of Wassily. Ms. Davis has also translated Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Blanchot, as well as biographies of Marie Curie and Alexis de Tocqueville, from the French.

Ms. Davis, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1998, lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College.