Lawrence Sutin
| Lawrence Sutin | |
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Lawrence Sutin at a public reading at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis | |
| Born |
October 12, 1951 Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Occupation | Author, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
B.A., University of Michigan Law Degree, Harvard Law |
| Genre | memoir, biography, novel, history |
| Notable works | Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance, A Postcard Memoir, All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West, When to Go Into the Water |
| Spouse | Mab Nulty |
| Children | Sarah Sutin, Brennan Vance (stepson), Ceallaigh Anderson (stepdaughter) |
| Relatives | Jack Sutin (father), Rochelle Sutin (mother) |
| Website | |
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Lawrence Sutin (born 1951) is the author of two memoirs, two biographies, a novel and a work of history.
History of Works
Sutin's debut book was the first full-length biographical study of a famed science-fiction writer, Philip K. Dick--Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick;[1] he subsequently edited two volumes of Dick's works, In Search of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis and The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings. He then served as editor, interviewer and author for the memoir of his parents' lives in Jewish partisan units in Poland during World War Two--Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance.[2] Sutin's second biography was on a controversial twentieth-century Western esotericist, Aleister Crowley--Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley.[3] That same year, he published a lyric memoir with a structure of interlocking short pieces each faced by a vintage postcard-image from the author's personal collection--A Postcard Memoir.[2] His next work was All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.[4] Most recently, Sutin published a novel, When To Go Into the Water.[5]
Erasure Art
Sutin creates erasure books with collaged and altered texts; excerpts from these have been published online in the literary journals WaterStone and Sleet[6] and are also on view at his website.[7]
Professional
Sutin is a full professor in the M.F.A. and M.L.S. programs at the Hamline University Creative Writing Program, in St. Paul, Minnesota.[1] He is also a faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
References
- 1 2 http://www.hamline.edu/gls/faculty_and_staff/bios/sutin_bio.html
- 1 2 http://www.amazon.com/dp/1555973043
- ↑ Aleister Crowley
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316741566
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/1932511725
- ↑ http://www.sleetmagazine.com/selected/sutin_interview_v4n2.html
- ↑ http://lawrencesutin.com/erasure
