Lydia Davis
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OverviewAI-generated
Lydia Davis is an American author born on July 15, 1947. Her literary output includes fifty-two works, with notable titles such as *Story, and other stories*, *Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle*, *Electric Literature No 2*, *The end of the story*, and *Samuel Johnson is indignant*. She is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
A separate musical artist also named Lydia Davis is listed as a male person from the United States. This artist is associated with genres including bebop, classical, cool jazz, funk, and hard bop. The subject is referenced by 128 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 Jul 1947
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Story, and other stories
- Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle
- Electric Literature No 2
- The end of the story
- Samuel Johnson is indignant
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 47
- Total plays
- 359
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lydia+Davis">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,043x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,482x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,676x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,889x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,084x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1947-07-15 ) July 15, 1947 (age 78) , Northampton, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer
- Alma mater
- Barnard College
- Period
- 1976–present
- Genre
- Short story, novel, essay
- Spouses
- Paul Auster ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1974 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1977 ) , Alan Cote
- Relatives
- Robert Gorham Davis (father), Hope Hale Davis (mother), Claudia Cockburn (half-sister)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lydia
- Family name
- Davis
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Northampton
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- translation
- Image
- Lydia Davis at Kelly Writers House (cropped).jpg
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1947-07-15
- influenced by
- Vladimir Nabokov
- writing language
- English language
- catalog code
- 407
- name in native language
- Lydia Davis
- Commons category
- Lydia Davis
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, poet, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes very short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lydia Davis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.