Christine Lehner

Christine Lehner
Born1952 (age 72–73)
Massachusetts, United States
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (BA)
Brown University (MA)
OccupationAuthor
Years active1982–present
StyleNovels and short stories
Spouse
Jeffrey Richardson Hewitt
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(m. 1976; div. 2001)​
Children2
WebsiteOfficial website

Christine Lehner (born 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer.[1]

Early life and education

Lehner was born in 1952 in Massachusetts.[2] She attended the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a B.A. in literature in 1973.[3] While at UC Santa Barbara, she was a student of Marvin Mudrick.[4] She later attended Brown University, where she graduated in 1977 with a M.A. in creative writing in 1977.[3]

Literary career

Lehner published her first novel, Expecting (ISBN 9780811208482), in 1982.[3] She published her second work, What to Wear to See the Pope (ISBN 9780786713295), over twenty years later in 2004.[3] Her most recent work, Absent a Miracle (ISBN 9780151014293), was released in 2009.[5]

In 2010, Lehner was selected as a member of the first class of State University of New York at Purchase's Fellows of the Writing Center.[1]

Personal life

Lehner married fellow College of Creative Studies and University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Jeffrey Richardson Hewitt in 1976.[6] The couple had two children, Reine and Tristram, before divorcing in 2001.[2][6] She currently resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.[7]

Lehner and Hewitt endowed the Brancart Fiction Prize and the Richardson Poetry Prize for the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara in honor of their grandmothers.[3][8]

Lehner has taken to bee keeping, founding Let it Bee Apiaries in 2004.[7][9]

References

  1. ^ a b "New Writers Center at Purchase College". www.purchase.edu. August 2, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "New Directions Publishing biography". www.ndbooks.com. 8 September 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Ambassadors of The College of Creative Studies - Christine Lehner". old.ccs.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  4. ^ "College of Creative Studies - Christine Lehner". ccs.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  5. ^ LeClair, Tom (August 21, 2009). "Fiction Chronicle". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Jeffrey Richardson Hewitt, 59". Duxbury Clipper. Duxbury, Massachusetts. January 4, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  7. ^ a b Weintraub Pohl, Diane (September 2010). "Ready to Raise Bees?". Westchester Magazine. Westchester County, New York. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  8. ^ "Awards and Prizes - A Brief History of the Brancart Fiction Prize and the Richardson Poetry Prize". www.ccs.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  9. ^ "Let It Bee Apiaries". www.letitbeehoney.com. Retrieved August 25, 2015.