Christine Lehner

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

Christine Lehner
Born1952 (age 70–71)
Massachusetts, United States
NationalityAmerican
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

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. "New Writers Center at Purchase College". www.purchase.edu. August 2, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  2. "New Directions Publishing biography". www.ndbooks.com. 8 September 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  3. "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. "Jeffrey Richardson Hewitt, 59". Duxbury Clipper. Duxbury, Massachusetts. January 4, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  7. 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.
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