Ellen Akins
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Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana.
Early life and education
After graduating from LaSalle Intermediate Academy in 1977, Akins earned a Bachelor of Arts in film production at the University of Southern California. As a young adult, Akins participated in Beyond Our Control, a youth-produced community television program.[1]Template:Better source needed
Career
Akins worked with film producer Sydney Pollack before losing interest in the film business. Akins then earned a Master of Fine Arts in the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University.[2] In April 1993, she was awarded the Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her fiction writing;[3] she has also been given grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation,[4] and won the Whiting Award in 1989.[5]
Akins is the author of five books; the novels Home Movie, published in 1988 by Simon & Schuster,[6] Little Woman, published in 1990 by Harper & Row,[7] Public Life, published in 1993 by HarperCollins,[3] and Hometown Brew, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998, and the short story collection "World Like a Knife", published in 1991 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Akins has also taught at Western Michigan University, Northland College,[3] and Fairleigh Dickinson University.[8]
Personal life
Akins lives in Cornucopia, Wisconsin.[9]
Awards
- 1989 Whiting Award
- 1993 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Works
Books
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Stories
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References
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External links
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- Writers from South Bend, Indiana
- Western Michigan University faculty
- Northland College (Wisconsin)
- Fairleigh Dickinson University faculty
- 20th-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- Living people
- USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- 20th-century American women writers
- Novelists from New Jersey
- Novelists from Indiana
- Novelists from Michigan
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women writers