Patricia Hampl

author

Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a Regents Professor and McKnight Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches in the MFA program. Her work often explores themes of family, Czech heritage, spirituality, and the wonder of the ordinary through detailed prose.[1]

Themes

  • memoir
  • Czech heritage
  • spirituality
  • autobiographical writing

Books

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Works by Patricia Hampl

  • Woman Before an Aquarium 1978 · book · English
  • A Romantic Education 1981 · book · English
  • Resort and Other Poems 1983 · book · English
  • Spillville 1987 · book · English With Steven Sorman.
  • Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life 1992 · book · English
  • Memory and Imagination 1999 · book · English
  • Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime 2006 · book · English
  • The Florist's Daughter: A Memoir 2007 · book · English
  • The Art of the Wasted Day 2018 · book · English

Awards

  • 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction

References

  1. Patricia Hampl. Minnesota Writers on the Map. 2020 link