User:Maryna.summers/Sandra Scofield

Sandra Scofield was born to Edith Aileen Hambleton in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1943.

Scofield taught in public schools and colleges, but stopped working in 1983 to write full-time. Her first novel was Gringa, based on her observations and experiences in 1960s Mexico. Since then she has published six more novels and a memoir, in addition to numerous book reviews, scholarly publications, and short stories.

Sandra Scofield visits MFA programs; occasionally she teaches writing in summer workshops and mentors individual writers. In addition to her contribution to these new and experienced writers, she has a book to give a guideline for how to write, with the specific techniques to follow (The Scene Book).

Sandra Scofield is also a painter, poet, and traveler.

She frequently reviews books for national newspapers including the Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and The Boston Globe.

Awards[edit]
Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1991); Beyond Deserving was a 1991 finalist for a National Book Award; and A Chance to See Egypt received the Best Fiction award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1996.

Novels and other Fiction[edit]

 * Gringa. Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1989.
 * Beyond Deserving. Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1991.
 * Walking Dunes. Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1992.
 * More Than Allies. Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1993.
 * Opal on Dry Ground. New York: Villard Books, 1994.
 * A Chance to See Egypt. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
 * Plain Seeing. New York: Cliff Street Books, 1997.
 * Swim: Stories of the Sixties". Ashland, OR: Wellstone Press, 2017.

Essays, compilations and memoirs[edit]

 * Occasions of Sin: a Memoir. New York: Norton, 2004.
 * The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.
 * Children of the Dust: an Okie Family Story (ed.) by Betty Grant Henshaw. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006.
 * Mysteries of Love and Grief: Reflections on a Plainswoman's Life". Texas University Press, 2015.

The Last Draft: A Novelist's Guide to Revision. New York: Penguin Books, 2017.

References[edit]

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 * 5) ^ [2] Archived December 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

External links[edit]

 * Author’s own site with bio, blurbs, excerpts and links (Archived from February 24, 2009)
 * Author papers (1958-2005 and undated) at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
 * Excerpt from Occasions of Sin