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Audrey Schulman

オードリー・シュルマン

Ōdorī Shuruman

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Montreal, Quebec
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Career

Occupations
novelist, environmental activist
Active Years
1994-2022
Affiliations
HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team)
Nominations
John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2019 (Theory of Bastards)

Education

Sarah Lawrence College
Psychology
Degree: Bachelor's degree in psychology
Country: United States
Barnard College
Psychology
Degree: Bachelor's degree in psychology
Country: United States

Awards

Philip K. Dick Award
2019
Work: Theory of Bastards
Result: Won
Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards
2019
Work: Theory of Bastards
Category: Open Category
Result: Won

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Cage

1994 Speculative fiction

A wildlife photographer goes on an expedition to photograph the final polar bears before they went extinct due to global warming.

climate changeenvironmental impact

Swimming with Jonah

1999 Literary fiction

A House Named Brazil

2000 Literary fiction

Three Weeks in December

2012 Literary fiction

Theory of Bastards

2018 Science fiction

A feminist science fiction novel.

The Dolphin House

2022 Literary fiction

A young woman develops a close bond with dolphins at a research institute in St. Thomas. Based on real events.

human-animal bonds

Bibliography

  • The Cage (1994)
  • Swimming with Jonah (1999)
  • A House Named Brazil (2000)
  • Three Weeks in December (2012)
  • Theory of Bastards (2018)
  • The Dolphin House (2022)

Legacy

American author of literary and speculative fiction, known for environmental themes and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award.