Lawrence Sutin Explained

Lawrence Sutin
Birth Place:Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation:Author, erasure artist
Education:University of Michigan (BA)
Harvard Law
Genre:memoir, biography, novel, history

Lawrence Sutin (born 1951) is the author of two memoirs, two biographies, a novel and a work of history.

History of works

Sutin's debut book was Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick.[1] He subsequently edited two volumes of writings by Dick, In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis and The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings.

Sutin then served as editor, interviewer and author for Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance, about his parents' experiences in Jewish partisan units in wartime Poland.[2]

Sutin's second biography was Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley.

Sutin has also published A Postcard Memoir, a set of interlocking short pieces each faced by a vintage postcard image from the author's collection.[2]

His next work was All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.[3]

Most recently, Sutin has published a novel, When To Go Into the Water.[4]

Erasure art

Sutin creates erasure books with collaged and altered texts; excerpts from these have been published online in the literary journals WaterStone and Sleet,[5] and are also on view at his website.[6]

In July 2021, Sutin was awarded a blue ribbon at the Island County fair in the bookmaking class for his erasure work "Lives of the Great Composers".[7]

Professional

Sutin was a full professor in the M.F.A. and M.L.S. programs at the Hamline University Creative Writing Program in St. Paul, Minnesota. He retired from Hamline in 2015. He was also a faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He retired from Vermont College in 2016.

Bibliography

References

  1. Web site: Larry Sutin bio statement . 2010-03-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090614104916/http://www.hamline.edu/gls/faculty_and_staff/bios/sutin_bio.html . 2009-06-14 .
  2. Book: 1555973043. A Postcard Memoir. Sutin. Lawrence. 2000. Graywolf Press .
  3. Book: 0316741566. All is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West. Sutin. Lawrence. 30 August 2006. Little, Brown .
  4. Book: 978-1932511727. When to Go into the Water: A Novel. Sutin. Lawrence. 2009. Sarabande Books .
  5. Web site: Eide. Anika. 2012. A Sleet Interview with Lawrence Sutin. Sleet Magazine. January 16, 2013.
  6. Web site: Erasure.
  7. Web site: See Double Press on Instagram: "Blue ribbon for Larry's erasure book!" .