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ⓘ About Lorrie Moore
Moore was born the second child among four siblings and remembers that her parents were culturally altered, politically minded, and very strict Protestants. She was a skinny and quiet child and often felt that she was so insubstantial to just about everyone. Growing up she always felt a lot of shyness and sometimes even walking in the small town she called home was a problem. Slowly, her sacrifices began to pay off as her stories began to be accepted into the likes of StoryQuarterly, John Gardner’s Mss, and Fiction International. It was in 1983 that things began to look up for Lorrie Moore when her Self-Help collection was bought by Knopf.
All Book Series by Lorrie Moore
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2023
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Series opener · book 1 of 28 · published 1955 Anthology · Flannery O'Connor
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Book 7 of 28 · published 1998 Anthology · Thom Jones
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Book 9 of 28 · published 2011 Anthology · Alan Bennett
The Cheater's Guide to Love
Book 10 of 28 · published 2012 Anthology · Junot Díaz
Come Rain or Come Shine
Book 14 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Kazuo Ishiguro
Dante and the Lobster
Book 16 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
Book 19 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Djuna Barnes
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom
Book 20 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Sylvia Plath
The Forester's Daughter
Book 23 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Claire Keegan
Three Types of Solitude
Book 24 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Brian W. Aldiss
Intruders
Latest in the series · book 28 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Adrian Tomine
New Women and New Fiction: Short Stories Since the Sixties
Series opener · book 1 of 17 · published 1986
The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood
Book 5 of 17 · published 1998
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Book 7 of 17 · published 1999
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
Book 12 of 17 · published 2004
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
Book 16 of 17 · published 2012
Daedalus: On the Novel: 150:1, Winter 2021
Latest in the series · book 17 of 17 · published 2021
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Lorrie Moore?
Moore was born the second child among four siblings and remembers that her parents were culturally altered, politically minded, and very strict Protestants. She was a skinny and quiet child and often felt that she was so insubstantial to just about everyone. Growing up she always felt a lot of shyness and sometimes even walking in the small town she called home was a problem.
Which Lorrie Moore series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Faber Stories series, the earliest of Lorrie Moore's multi-book series: it opens with A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1955) and runs to 28 books across 1955–2019, ending with Intruders (2019).
How many books has Lorrie Moore written?
Lorrie Moore has 61 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1955 and 2023. 28 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Faber Stories series with 28 books — and 33 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Lorrie Moore's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Lorrie Moore's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Faber Stories (1955–2019, 28 books).
How are Lorrie Moore's books organised into series?
This guide splits Lorrie Moore's 61 books into 1 named series and 33 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Faber Stories (28 books, 1955–2019).