Lynne Sharon Schwartz (born March 19, 1939) is an American prose and poetry writer. Biography Schwartz grew up in Brooklyn, the second of three children of Jack M. Sharon, a lawyer and accountant, and Sarah Slatus Sharon; she married Harry Schwartz in 1957. She holds a BA (1959) from Barnard College, an MA (1961) from Bryn Mawr, and started work on a PhD at NYU. Schwartz has taught in many universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College. Lynne Sharon Schwartz lives in New York City, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres, from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, and translation from Italian. Selected works Crossing Borders (Seven Stories Press, 2018) Two-Part Inventions (Counterpoint, 2012), a novel based on the story of Joyce Hatto and William Barrington-Coupe The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W.G. Sebald (Seven Stories Press, 2007) The Writing on the Wall: A Novel (Counterpoint, 2005) Referred Pain and Other Stories (Counterpoint Press, 2004) In Solitary: Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2002) Face to Face: A Reader in the World (Beacon Press, 2000) In the Family Way: an Urban Comedy (William Morrow, 1999) Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books (Beacon Press, 1996) The Fatigue Artist (Scribner, 1995) The Four Questions (Picture Puffins, 1994) Leaving Brooklyn (Houghton Mifflin, 1989) We are talking about homes: A great university against its neighbors (Harper & Row, 1985) Disturbances in the Field (HarperCollins, 1983) Balancing Acts (HarperCollins, 1981) Rough Strife (HarperCollins, 1980) See You In The Dark, a poetry collection Not Now, Voyager, a memoir References 1939 births Living people American women novelists American women poets American women short story writers American women essayists American memoirists American women memoirists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers 20th-century translators 21st-century American translators Italian–English translators Writers from Brooklyn Poets from New York (state) Barnard College alumni Bryn Mawr College alumni New York University alumni Bryn Mawr College faculty Columbia University faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty Rice University faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Bennington College faculty University of Michigan faculty 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century