Lawrence Sutin
Lawrence Sutin | |
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Lawrence Sutin at a public reading at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis | |
Born |
Saint Paul, Minnesota | October 12, 1951
Occupation | Author, Erasure (artform) Artist |
Nationality | American |
Education | Law Degree, Harvard Law |
Genre | memoir, biography, novel, history |
Notable works | Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance, A Postcard Memoir, All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West, When to Go Into the Water |
Spouse | Mab Nulty |
Children | Sarah Santosa, Brennan Vance (stepson), Ceallaigh Anderson (stepdaughter), Ansel Santosa (son-in-law) |
Relatives | Jack Sutin (father), Rochelle Sutin (mother) |
Website | |
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Lawrence Sutin (born 1951) is the author of two memoirs, two biographies, a novel and a work of history.
History of works
Sutin's debut book was the first full-length biographical study of a famed science-fiction writer, Philip K. Dick--Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick;[1] he subsequently edited two volumes of Dick's works, In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis and The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings. He then served as editor, interviewer and author for the memoir of his parents' lives in Jewish partisan units in Poland during World War Two--Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance.[2] Sutin's second biography was on a controversial twentieth-century Western esotericist, Aleister Crowley--Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley. That same year, he published a lyric memoir with a structure of interlocking short pieces each faced by a vintage postcard-image from the author's personal collection--A Postcard Memoir.[2] His next work was All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.[3] Most recently, Sutin published a novel, When To Go Into the Water.[4]
Erasure art
Sutin creates erasure books with collaged and altered texts; excerpts from these have been published online in the literary journals WaterStone and Sleet[5] and are also on view at his website.[6]
Professional
Sutin was a full professor in the M.F.A. and M.L.S. programs at the Hamline University Creative Writing Program, in St. Paul, Minnesota.[1] He retired from Hamline in 2015. He was also a faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He retired from Vermont College in 2016.
References
- 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-14. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
- 1 2 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1555973043
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316741566
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932511725
- ↑ http://www.sleetmagazine.com/selected/sutin_interview_v4n2.html
- ↑ http://lawrencesutin.com/erasure