Mameve Medwed
Encyclopedia
Mameve Medwed is an American novelist. Born in Bangor, Maine
, she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
. Her books include How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, Host Family, and Of Men and Their Mothers.
At Bangor's Garland Street Junior High, she wrote a gossip column for the school newspaper. She later attended Simmons College
. Her first novel, Mail, was an expanded version of a short story she sold for $100. Warner Books eventually bought it, and a second novel, for $220,000.
Bangor, Maine
Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine...
, she now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
. Her books include How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, Host Family, and Of Men and Their Mothers.
At Bangor's Garland Street Junior High, she wrote a gossip column for the school newspaper. She later attended Simmons College
Simmons College (Massachusetts)
Simmons College, established in 1899, is a private women's undergraduate college and private co-educational graduate school in Boston, Massachusetts.-History:Simmons was founded in 1899 with a bequest by John Simmons a wealthy clothing manufacturer in Boston...
. Her first novel, Mail, was an expanded version of a short story she sold for $100. Warner Books eventually bought it, and a second novel, for $220,000.
External links
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