Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday
Lisa at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2018)
Born (1976-07-12) 12 July 1976 (age 48)
Medfield, Massachusetts
Alma materHarvard University
OccupationAuthor
Years active1997-present
Notable workAsymmetry
Spouse
Theo
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(m. 2009)​
Children1
AwardsWhiting Award

Lisa Halliday (born July 12, 1976) is an American author. She mainly writes novels. Halliday has written several books. Her most popular book is Asymmetry. She won the Whiting Award for it in 2017.[1]'

Reviews

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Of Halliday's book Asymmetry, Alice Gregory of the New York Times Book Review wrote, "Halliday’s novel is so strange and startlingly smart that its mere existence seems like commentary on the state of fiction".[2] There were also positive reviews from Karen Heller of the Washington Post[3] and Parul Sehgal of the New York Times.[4]

Works

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  • Halliday, Lisa (2018). Asymmetry. New York. ISBN 978-1-5011-6676-1. OCLC 989963024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

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  1. ↑ Piepenbring, Dan (2017-03-22). "Say Hello to the 2017 Whiting Honorees". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Alice (2018-02-12). "Three Lives, and the Tenuous Ties That Bind Them". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  3. ↑ "Review | A former lover of Philip Roth has published a novel about a writer like Philip Roth". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  4. ↑ Sehgal, Parul (2018-02-06). "Two Stories Harmonize in Lisa Halliday's Deft Debut Novel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-29.