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Robb Forman Dew

Robb Forman Dew was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For the past thirty years she has lived in Williamstown, MA, where she lives with her husband, who is professor of history at Williams College. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Dew is the author of the novels Dale Loves Sophie to Death, for which she received the National Book Award; The Time of Her Life; Fortunate Lives; The Evidence Against Her; and, most recently, The Truth of the Matter; as well as a memoir, The Family Heart.

Fiction

Winter 2009

All the Time

By Robb Forman Dew

Excerpt from the novel All the Time  Chapter One Agnes Scofield didn’t know—nor would she have cared—that at the exact moment she lost her grip on her embattled fortitude and […]

Fiction

Winter 1992

The Summer House

By Robb Forman Dew

Every year when the college and the public schools released their faculty and students in early June, Dinah Howells’s house began to fill with people who came and went at […]