Kate Braverman (1949–2019)

Author of Lithium for Medea

17+ Works 467 Members 5 Reviews 4 Favorited

About the Author

Kate Braverman was born on Febraury 5, 1949 in Philadelphia. She has a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in English from Sonoma State University. She was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Los show more Angeles, staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program. She also taught privately a workshop which included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley. Her novels include: Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Wonders of the West and the Incantation of Frida K. She passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico.on October 13, 2019 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Braverman Kate, Kate Ellen Braverman

Image credit: Photo by Chris Felver

Works by Kate Braverman

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Lithium for Medea (1979) 135 copies, 1 review

The Incantation of Frida K. (2002) 80 copies, 1 review

Palm Latitudes (1988) 69 copies, 1 review

Squandering the Blue stories (1990) 55 copies, 1 review

Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir (2006) 44 copies

Small Craft Warnings: Stories (1998) 28 copies

A Good Day for Seppuku: Stories (2018) 20 copies, 1 review

Wonders of the West (1993) 13 copies

Lullaby for Sinners (1980) 7 copies

Hurricane Warnings (1987) 4 copies

Dropping in; putting it all back together (1972) 3 copies

Postcard from August (1991) 2 copies

The Cream City Literary Review (Volume 26, Number 2) (2002) 2 copies

Milk Run (1977) 2 copies

The Woman Who Sold Communion (in The Best of McSweeney's Volume Two - EGGERS) 1 copy

The American Voice, No. 21: Silencing (Winter 1990) (1990) 1 copy

Yellow Fever 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributor — 538 copies, 4 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contributor — 502 copies, 2 reviews

McSweeney's Issue 14 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been… (2004) — Contributor — 402 copies, 5 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1995 (1995) — Contributor — 309 copies

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004) — Contributor — 275 copies, 9 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1991 (1991) — Contributor — 187 copies, 2 reviews

San Francisco Noir (2005) — Contributor — 109 copies, 2 reviews

Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards (1992) — Contributor — 66 copies

How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Contributor — 58 copies

Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contributor — 54 copies, 1 review

Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics (2010) — Contributor — 47 copies, 1 review

Did My Mama Like to Dance? and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters (1994) — Contributor — 41 copies

The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contributor — 34 copies

Antaeus No. 69, Fall 1992 (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies

Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contributor — 6 copies

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Legal name: Braverman, Kate Ellen
Birthdate: 1949-02-05
Date of death: 2019-10-12
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Country (for map): USA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Cause of death: cardiac arrest
Places of residence: Los Angeles, California, USA
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Alfred, New York, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Education: University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Sonoma State University (MA)
Occupations: writer
Organizations: UCLA Extension Writers' Program
Venice Poetry Workshop (cofounder)
Awards and honors: The Best American Short Stories
O'Henry Award

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Reviews

A Good Day for Seppuku: Stories by Kate Braverman

Collection of short stories. Many but not all are set in the same small Pennsylvania town and all treat some aspect of dysfunctional families. The writing style blew me away; it was quite stunning. I could visualize each very easily. Plots were minimal.

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janerawoof | Mar 15, 2020 |

Lithium for Medea: A Novel by Kate Braverman

One of those books that's more about the way it's told than anything else. It could be depressing, but Braverman's words transform it into something that is also illuminating.

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dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |

Palm Latitudes: A Novel by Kate Braverman

Find on her website to read.

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b00kish | Apr 3, 2013 |

The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman

There is much to say about Kate Braverman. She’s 57 years old and a SF writer who is a self-proclaimed outlaw. She is currently working on a book of poetry in San Francisco. She’s a relevant literary experimentalist who is hell-bent on women having total access to the page, according to an article by San Francisco’s Unscripted. She’s non-canonical a la Kathy Acker. She’s post-modern, post-punk and a product of the 60’s beat poets. She loves Leonard Cohen and William Burroughs. But let’s get down to the nitty gritty. There’s a jarring way Braverman inhabits the female body and this is important to feminist writing today.
More at http://annotationnation.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/the-incantation-of-frida-k/… (more)

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AnnotationNation | Mar 22, 2011 |

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