A. M. Homes

January 10, 2024
Writer

Quick Facts

A. M. Homes
Full Name A. M. Homes
Occupation Writer
Date Of Birth Dec 18, 1961(1961-12-18)
Age 63
Birthplace Washington, D.C.
Country United States
Horoscope Aquarius

A. M. Homes Biography

Name A. M. Homes
Birthday Dec 18
Birth Year 1961
Place Of Birth Washington, D.C.
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Aquarius
Parents Ellen Ballman, Norman Hecht
Children(s) Juliet Homes

A. M. Homes is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on December 18, 1961 in Washington, D.C., United States. Homes was born in 1961 in Washington, D.C. and given up for adoption. She was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland and after graduating from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School she attended American University.

In 1990, Homes’s first short-story collection, The Safety of Objects, was published. This was adapted as an independent feature film of the same name, released in 2001 and starring Glenn Close among others. Homes co-wrote the screenplay together with the director, Rose Troche.

Homes’ articles and essays are published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Artforum, Vanity Fair, and McSweeney’s, among others. She has also been a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine since 1995, where she has published articles and interviews with various artists and writers, including Eric Fischl, Tobias Wolff, and Adam Bartos.

Homes’ 1996 novel, The End of Alice, is narrated mostly by a convicted child molester and murderer imprisoned in the West Block of Sing Sing. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham described this work as

She wrote her first novel, Jack, when she was 19; it was published in 1989 when she was 28, after she had published some short stories. An exploration of family life and sexuality, it features a boy with divorced parents who learns that his father is gay. The book was critically praised and is still featured in school and college reading lists. Homes wrote a screenplay to adapt it as a film by the same name, produced in 2004 for the cable network Showtime.

A. M. Homes Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Writer
House Living in own house.

A. M. Homes is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, A. M. Homes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961,) is an American writer best known for her controversial novels and unusual short stories, which feature extreme situations and characters. Notably, her novel The End of Alice (1996) is about a convicted child molester and murderer.

Homes received her Bachelor of Arts in 1985 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with the author Grace Paley. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Her second novel was In a Country of Mothers (1993). It centered around a therapist and a girl patient who was adopted; the therapist begins to think the girl might be her own daughter, whom she had given up at birth. (Homes was writing this novel and it was in production before her own birth mother tracked her down in 1992.)

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Her novel, This Book Will Save Your Life (2006), was set in Los Angeles; it satirized upper-class residents and the city’s culture. It featured “a rich, isolated man who suffers a physical crisis and goes on a wild compassion spree.” The Guardian said that “it was kitschy and bordered on the inane, but there was something appealing about its mixture of the apocalyptic and the perkily upbeat, caught nicely by John Waters when he said: ‘If Oprah went insane, this might be her favourite book.'”

Facts & Trivia

A. Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. A. M. Homes celebrates birthday on December 18 of every year.

Since 2010, Homes has been developing television pilots for CBS with Timberman/Beverly Productions. In 2013 she was developing Koethi Zan’s best- selling novel, The Never List, as a dramatic series for CBS television. Homes was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the 2017 USA Series Falling Water, and also a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the David Kelly Stephen King Series, Mr. Mercedes.

Top Facts about A. M. Homes

  1. A.M. Homes is an American writer born in 1961.
  2. She has published 12 books, including novels and short stories.
  3. Her novel “May We Be Forgiven” won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2013.
  4. Homes’ work often explores themes of family dysfunction and identity.
  5. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.
  6. Homes has also written for television shows such as “The L Word” and “Homeland.”
  7. Her memoir “The Mistress’s Daughter” details her experience meeting her biological parents.
  8. In addition to writing, she teaches creative writing at Princeton University.
  9. Homes is openly gay and has been an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.
  10. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 1996.

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