Lucy Honig

Lucy Honig
Born	(1948-05-07)May 7, 1948
Died	September 18, 2017(2017-09-18) (aged 69)
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Education	Syracuse University Hunter College (MEd)
Genre	Short story
Notable awards	Drue Heinz Literature Prize (1999)

Lucy Honig (May 7, 1948 – September 18, 2017) was an American short story writer.

Life

She graduated from Syracuse University and from Hunter College with a master's in education. She taught in the Boston University School of Public Health.

Her work appeared in AGNI, DoubleTake, Gargoyle, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares

Awards

• 1998 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
• 1992, 1996 O. Henry Award for short fiction
• L.L. Winship PEN New England award finalist

Works

Short stories

• Open Season. Scala House Publishers, LLC. 2002. ISBN 978-0-9720287-2-1.
• The truly needy and other stories. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8229-5781-2. (reprint 2002)
• English as a Second Language. 20 Century American Short Stories - Volume 2. 1995.

Novels

• Waiting for Rescue: A Novel. Counterpoint. 2009. ISBN 978-1-58243-527-5.
• Picking up: by Lucy Honig. Dog Ear Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-937966-20-4.

Anthologies

• Best American Short Stories 1988,
• William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1992). Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-42192-8.
• John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.

External links

• "THE TRULY NEEDY: And Other Stories.", The New York Times, GARDNER McFALL, February 6, 2000