Ellen Akins | |
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Born |
South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
Alma mater |
University of Southern California (
BA) Johns Hopkins University ( MFA) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana.
After graduating from LaSalle Intermediate Academy in 1977, Akins earned a Bachelor of Arts in film production at the University of Southern California. As a young adult, Akins participated in Beyond Our Control, a youth-produced community television program. [1]
Akins worked with film producer Sydney Pollack before losing interest in the film business. Akins then earned a Master of Fine Arts in the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. [2] In April 1993, she was awarded the Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her fiction writing; [3] she has also been given grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, [4] and won the Whiting Award in 1989. [5]
Akins is the author of five books; the novels Home Movie, published in 1988 by Simon & Schuster, [6] Little Woman, published in 1990 by Harper & Row, [7] Public Life, published in 1993 by HarperCollins, [3] and Hometown Brew, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998, and the short story collection "World Like a Knife", published in 1991 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Akins has also taught at Western Michigan University, Northland College, [3] and Fairleigh Dickinson University. [8]
Akins lives in Cornucopia, Wisconsin. [9]
Ellen Akins | |
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Born |
South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
Alma mater |
University of Southern California (
BA) Johns Hopkins University ( MFA) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana.
After graduating from LaSalle Intermediate Academy in 1977, Akins earned a Bachelor of Arts in film production at the University of Southern California. As a young adult, Akins participated in Beyond Our Control, a youth-produced community television program. [1]
Akins worked with film producer Sydney Pollack before losing interest in the film business. Akins then earned a Master of Fine Arts in the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. [2] In April 1993, she was awarded the Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her fiction writing; [3] she has also been given grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, [4] and won the Whiting Award in 1989. [5]
Akins is the author of five books; the novels Home Movie, published in 1988 by Simon & Schuster, [6] Little Woman, published in 1990 by Harper & Row, [7] Public Life, published in 1993 by HarperCollins, [3] and Hometown Brew, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998, and the short story collection "World Like a Knife", published in 1991 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Akins has also taught at Western Michigan University, Northland College, [3] and Fairleigh Dickinson University. [8]
Akins lives in Cornucopia, Wisconsin. [9]