Sarah shun-lien bynum biography definition

PERSONAL: Married. Education:Brown University, received degree; Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa, received degree.

ADDRESSES: Home—Brooklyn, NY.

Agent—Bill Clegg, Burnes & Clegg, Inc., 1133 Broadway, Suite 1020, New York, NY 10010.

CAREER: Writer.

AWARDS, HONORS: Iowa arts fellowship; National Book Award finalist, 2004, for Madeleine Is Sleeping.

WRITINGS:

Madeleine Is Sleeping (novel), Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004.

Contributor to the anthology The Best American Short Stories of 2004, and to the periodicals Alaska Quarterly Review and Georgia Review.

SIDELIGHTS: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum won a coveted place as a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award for her debut novel, Madeleine Is Sleeping, "an allegory of adolescence," according to Heidi Jon Schmidt in People. The National Book Foundation, in announcing Bynum's place on the award's short list, described the novel as "part fairy tale, part coming-of-age