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Mavis Gallant

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MAVIS GALLANT was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1922. She began her career as a journalist, before switching to fiction in 1950. She moved to Paris a decade later, and spent the rest of her life there. She published 116 stories in The New Yorker over the course of her career; in addition, she wrote two novels, a play, and a collection of essays. A recipient of the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story and the 2004 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement, she died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one.

Mavis Gallant Books

The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant book cover

The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

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Paris Notebooks book cover

Paris Notebooks

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The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant book cover

The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

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A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky book cover

A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky

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Overhead in a Balloon book cover

Overhead in a Balloon

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The Pegnitz Junction book cover

The Pegnitz Junction

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From the Fifteenth District book cover

From the Fifteenth District

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Home Truths book cover

Home Truths

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Across the Bridge book cover

Across the Bridge

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The Cost of Living book cover

The Cost of Living

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Paris Stories book cover

Paris Stories

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Varieties of Exile book cover

Varieties of Exile

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