American writer noted for her short stories, also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages.
Her Break it down, 1986: CIP t.p. (Lydia Davis)
Her The thirteenth woman and other stories, c1976: t.p. (Lydia Davis) cover (b. Northampton, Mass., 1947; studied at Barnard College; lives in New York City; translator of French books)
