![]() ![]() She is the senior fiction writer in the MFA program at Washington University in St. In 2006, she won the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her other books are Labrador (1988), The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (1993), Hell: A Novel (1998), The Walking Tour (1999), Versailles (2002), and The Thin Place (2006). ![]() Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels, the most recent of which is Duplex (2013). Throughout her long career, Carrington published novels, stories, and plays, in addition to making paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. Nearly mad with grief and terror, she was thrown into a lunatic asylum in Spain, and, after escaping, married a Mexican diplomat, fleeing Europe for New York City then Mexico City, where she lived for the rest of her life. After Ernst was taken from their home to a Nazi internment camp in 1940, Carrington fled France. Four years later, she ran off with Max Ernst and became a darling of the art world in Paris: serving guests hair omelets at one party, arriving naked to another. ![]() She was born to a wealthy English family in 1917, expelled from two convents as a girl, and presented to the king’s court in 1933. Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a key figure in the Surrealist movement and an artist of remarkable individuality. ![]()
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