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Brett Ellen Block

American novelist and short story writer

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name	Brett Ellen Block
pseudonym	Ellen Block
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birth_place	Summit, New Jersey
language	English
education	Iowa Writers' Workshop
alma_mater	University of Michigan
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Brett Ellen Block (born in Summit, New Jersey) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

Block was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Hopwood and Haugh Prizes for Fiction Writing. She went on to earn graduate degrees at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of East Anglia’s Fiction Writing Program.

Her debut collection of short stories, "Destination Known," won the Drue Heinz Literary Prize, and she is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Grave of God’s Daughter and the Macavity Award-nominated thriller The Lightning Rule.

Writing under the name "Ellen Block" she penned the novel The Language of Sand and its sequel, The Definition of Wind.

She lives in Los Angeles.

Awards

2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Destination Known
2003 Michener-Copernicus Fellowship

Works

Short stories

Mystery

(Paperbacks)

References

Staff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105143256/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3090200022.html "Block, Brett Ellen–"], ''[[Contemporary Authors]]'', 2008. Accessed February 18, 2011.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071019103628/http://www.ucnj.org/news/2006/0612beb.html Freeholders Honor Brett Ellen Block of Summit], [[Union County, New Jersey]] [[Board of Chosen Freeholders]], December 22, 2006, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of October 19, 2007. Accessed February 18, 2011.
"Brett Ellen Block from HarperCollins Publishers".
"New Jersey Historical Society".
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