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
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
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 […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1986
Illinois Short Fiction: The Tenth Anniversary
Honeymoon by Merrill Joan Gerber. 136 pages. Tentacles of Unreason by Joan Givner. 144 pages. The Christmas Wife by Helen Norris. 144 pages. Getting to Know the Weather by Pamela […]
