Mary Lavin was born in Massachusetts in 1912, but moved to Ireland as a child. Her first collection of short stories,
Tales from Bective Bridge, published in 1942, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and launched her acclaimed career in this genre. Her stories appeared in the
New Yorker and
Atlantic Monthly, among other magazines. Her novels, including
The House in Clewe Street, were also widely celebrated. She won several awards, including the Guggenheim fellowship and the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and
she
was President of the Irish PEN and
Aosdána, the Irish Academy of Letters. She died in 1996.
Mary Lavin is ranked amongst the greatest short-story writers of the twentieth century, and remains a titan of Irish literature. First published in 1967, In the Middle of the Fields explores lives that are multi-layered and secretive, peculiar and intimate, and offers a window into...
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