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Curtis Sittenfeld


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Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the bestselling novels Prep and The Man of My Dreams, which are being translated into twenty-five languages. Prep also was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, nominated for the UK's Orange Prize, and optioned by Paramount Pictures. Curtis won the Seventeen magazine fiction writing contest in 1992, at age sixteen, and since then her writing has appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Salon, Glamour, and on public radio's This American Life. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she was the 2002 - 2003 writer in residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Prep (2005)
   The Man of My Dreams (2006)
   American Wife (2008)
   Sisterland (2013)
   Rodham (2020)
   Romantic Comedy (2023)
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Collections
   You Think It, I'll Say It (2018)
   Help Yourself (2020)
   Show Don't Tell (2025)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   A Regular Couple (2012)
   Atomic Marriage (2019)
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Books containing stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
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The Best American Short Stories 2018 (2018)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Roxane Gay
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The Best American Short Stories 2017 (2017)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Meg Wolitzer
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By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul

Award nominations
2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist) : You Think It, I'll Say It


Curtis Sittenfeld recommends
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Like Family (2025)
Erin O White
"Like Family is so warm, joyful, smart, and nuanced. Its depictions of friendship and middle age and marriage and the beautiful messiness of life feel familiar in the best ways, but also fresh in the best ways. I absolutely love this novel and can't wait to share it with everyone I know."
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Swift River (2024)
Essie Chambers
"Truly amazing. Such an incredible blend of intimate and epic, so smart and funny and honest and generous-spirited. I like plenty of books but I love a novel this much maybe just once or twice a year."
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Brotherless Night (2023)
V V Ganeshananthan
"Stunningly great."

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