Lisa Alther (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Lisa Alther (AL-thur), née Reed, grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee, the daughter of a surgeon father who encouraged her curiosity about science and a mother who had majored in English and led her to an early interest in literature. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1966 with a B.A. in English and soon after married Richard Alther, a painter, from whom she was later divorced. Her daughter, Sara, was born in 1968. Alther worked briefly in publishing in New York; although she subsequently moved to rural Vermont, she still considers herself very much a southern writer.
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