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Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961,〔Library of Congress authority record. Retrieved on November 11, 2007.〕 Washington, D.C.) is an American writer. She is best known for her controversial novels and unusual short stories, which feature extreme situations and characters. Notably, her ''The End of Alice'' (1996) is a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. Adopted at birth, Homes met her biological parents for the first time when she was 31, and published a memoir, ''The Mistress's Daughter'' (2007) about her exploration of her expanded "family." Her most recent novel, ''May We Be Forgiven,'' was published by Viking Books on September 27, 2012. The first chapter of the novel was published in ''Granta''′s 100th issue in 2008, edited by William Boyd, and was selected by Salman Rushdie for ''The Best American Short Stories 2008''. The novel won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013.〔 ==Early life== Homes was born in 1961 in Washington, DC to a single woman who got pregnant during an affair with her older, married boss. Homes was put up for adoption immediately after birth and reared by her adoptive parents in the Washington metropolitan area. She did not meet her biological parents until she was 31, when her mother first tracked her down. Homes received her Bachelor of Arts in 1985 from Sarah Lawrence College,〔Weich, Dave, "A. M. Homes Is a Big Fat Liar," Powells.com, May 24, 1999.〕 where she studied with the author Grace Paley. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. M. Homes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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