Ellis Avery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ellis Avery

American writer

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1972

Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 15-Feb-2019

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Ellis Avery

  • Ellis Avery (October 25, 1972 – February 15, 2019) was an American writer.
  • She won two Stonewall Book Awards (the only author to have done so), one in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and one in 2013 for her second novel The Last Nude.
  • The Teahouse Fire also won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction and an Ohioana Library Fiction Award in 2007.
  • She self-published her memoir, The Family Tooth, in 2015.Themes of Avery's work include, "aesthetically disciplined bodies" and "the will to make beauty that exceeds [pain]" She was interested in the formation of queer identity before queerness was a "social category"; as such, she was at the forefront of a queer historical fiction movement in which the historical setting is, among other things, an allegory for the queer child awakening to her identity in a household that cannot recognize or name her existence.
  • Avery and her partner, Sharon Marcus, a professor of English and French literature, influenced each other's work through a shared interest in interrogating received social constructs about women's relationships and lesbian identity in historical contexts.
  • In her later work, through her struggles with cancer and Reiter's syndrome, Avery became interested in medical narratives by both those afflicted with illness and medical professionals, and in 2018 led a narrative medicine storytelling and writing workshop at Harvard Medical School.
  • She taught creative writing at Columbia University, and previously at the University of California at Berkeley.In 2012, Avery was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a rare type of cancer that affects smooth muscle tissue.
  • She died on February 15, 2019.
  • An out lesbian, she is survived by her partner Sharon Marcus.

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