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Clare Beams (born 1981 or 1982)[1] is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published a collection of short stories and two novels, and her works are often about women's experiences.
Life and career [ edit ]
Beams grew up in Connecticut .[1] She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in 2006.[2] [3] She taught high school English for nine years in Massachusetts , and later moved to Pittsburgh where she taught fiction at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts .[2] [4] In 2014 she received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for prose.[2] As of 2024[update] she teaches in the Randolph College MFA program.[5] She and her husband have two daughters.[1] [6]
Beams' debut book, the short story collection We Show What We Have Learned , was published in 2016, and was listed by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best debut fiction books of that year.[7] The review described it as a "richly imagined and impeccably crafted debut".[8] Joyce Carol Oates described her as a "female/feminist voice for the 21st century".[9] Reviews in The New York Times , the Star Tribune , the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Paste also praised the collection.[4] [10] [11] [12] The collection features themes of transformation and magical realism, and four of the nine stories are set in schools.[12] [4] It was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize , the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Shirley Jackson Award for best collection.[13] [14] [15]
She was writer in residence at Bard College in 2020, having received the Bard Fiction Prize for We Show What We Have Learned .[13] [16] In the same year she published her first novel, The Illness Lesson . Set in 19th century Massachusetts, the novel is about an illness affecting a school of young women.[3] [17] It was described by The Washington Post as "Louisa May Alcott meets Shirley Jackson , with a splash of Margaret Atwood ",[13] and by The New York Times as "astoundingly original".[18] It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize .[19]
Beams' second novel The Garden was published in 2024, and she has said it was inspired by the history of diethylstilbestrol , a drug prescribed to pregnant women in the mistaken belief that it would prevent miscarriage but that instead caused serious adverse side effects.[20] The New York Times observed that "the genius of the novel is the way Beams continually intertwines fictional elements with true-to-life obstetric practices".[20] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette noted that "like her previous work, [Beam] writes with her eyes wide open, completely unafraid to embrace the macabre".[21] She is the 2023-24 Walton Visiting Writer in Fiction at the University of Arkansas .[5]
We Show What We Have Learned (short story collection, Lookout Books, 2016)[9]
The Illness Lesson (novel, Doubleday, 2020)[13]
The Garden (novel, Doubleday, 2024)[1]
References [ edit ]
^ a b c "Clare Beams" . National Endowment for the Arts . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ a b Shapiro, Rebecca. "Review: "The Illness Lesson" " . Columbia Magazine . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ a b c Wright, Wendeline O. (December 4, 2016). " 'We Show What We Have Learned': Pittsburgh author Clare Beams' unsettling literary triumph" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Archived from the original on December 6, 2016.
^ a b "Clare Beams, 2023-24 Walton Visiting Writer in Fiction, to Read in Fayetteville" . University of Arkansas . February 16, 2024. Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ "about" . Clare Beams . Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ "Best Debut Fiction of 2016" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ "We Show What We Have Learned" . Kirkus Reviews . July 27, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ a b Moore, Andrew (October 19, 2024). "A Conversation with Clare Beams" . Pittsburgh City Paper . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ Williams, John (November 30, 2016). "Books by Clare Beams, Hans Herbert Grimm, April Ayers Lawson and Kelly Luce" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ Forbes, Malcolm (November 4, 2024). "Review: 'We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories,' by Clare Beams" . Star Tribune . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ a b An, Christine (October 28, 2016). "Clare Beams Proves She's a Captivating Literary Voice with We Show What We Have Learned" . Paste Magazine . Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ a b c d Winik, Marion (March 3, 2020). " 'The Illness Lesson' alludes to 'Little Women' but will remind you of darker works" . The Washington Post . Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ "The New York Public Library's 2017 Young Lions Fiction Award" . Town & Country . June 8, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ "2016 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners" . The Shirley Jackson Awards . Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ "Bard Fiction Prize Winner Clare Beams to Give Reading on February 24" . Bard College . February 13, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ Meyer, Lily (March 9, 2020). "The Claustrophobic Menace of Boarding-School Fiction" . The Atlantic . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ Jones, Siobhan (February 14, 2020). "An Adulterer, a Gang Member, a Dystopian Teacher: 3 Novels of American Womanhood" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ "2020 First Novel Prize" . The Center for Fiction . Retrieved May 4, 2024 .
^ a b Oshetsky, Claire (April 9, 2024). "Is This Maternity Hospital Haunted, or Is It All a Pregnant Metaphor?" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
^ Gualtieri, Christy. "Review: Clare Beams on the desire and darkness of motherhood" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Archived from the original on April 24, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024 .
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