Virgin Time

Patricia Hampl first stepped onto the literary scene with A Romantic Education, a Cold War memoir about her Czech heritage. Four of her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Hampl's work has  appeared in  The New Yorker,   Paris Review,   Granta, The American Scholar, the New York Times, the  Los Angeles Times,   Best American Short Stories  and  Best  American Essays. In 1990 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In addition, she has received fellowships  from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bush Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (twice, in poetry and prose), Ingram Merrill Foundation and Djerassi Foundation. Hampl teaches fall semesters in the English MFA program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.