Judith Frank

Judith Frank is an American writer and professor.[1][2] She has been a two-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, winning in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the 17th Lambda Literary Awards in 2005 for her novel Crybaby Butch,[3] and being a shortlisted nominee in the Gay Fiction category at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015 for All I Love and Know.[4] She is Jewish.[5]

Judith Frank
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Period2000s–present
Notable worksCrybaby Butch, All I Love and Know

Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Frank spent some time living in Jerusalem, Israel as a teenager.[6] She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her B.A. and Cornell University for her MFA and PhD.[2] She joined Amherst College as a professor of English and creative writing in 1988.[6][2]

She has also published short stories in The Massachusetts Review, Other Voices and Best Lesbian Love Stories 2005, as well as the critical study Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor.

Frank is currently working as a middle-grade mathematics and social studies teacher in New Jersey.

Works
  • Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor (1997)
  • Crybaby Butch (2004)
  • All I Love and Know (2014)

Awards

References
  1. "Catching Up With Judith Frank, Author of All I Love & Know". Out, August 8, 2014.
  2. "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography In Context. Gale. 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  3. 17th Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary Foundation, July 9, 2005.
  4. "The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015.
  5. "Interview with Judith Frank | Jewish Book Council". July 2014.
  6. "My Life: Judith Frank, Professor of English". Amherst Magazine, Spring 2009.
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