Deirdre Shaw | Author

Deirdre Shaw
Novelist, Short Story Writer

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PUBLISHED: Apr.14.2009

Deirdre Shaw's emotionally honest, clear-eyed debut follows a thirtysomething woman forced to redefine love, career, and family after her young marriage falters. “Bright and promising...Shaw’s first novel unfolds easily, with well-crafted prose and vivid detail. A great young-in-L.A. novel.” -- Publishers Weekly

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Oct.13.2008 - 6:54 pm

From First Story to First Novel: Dreaming the Biggest Dream of All

When I had my first short story published four years ago, I thought, This is it. This is all I have ever dreamed of. I can now die happy as a writer. Then I had my second story...

Jul.30.2008 - 2:13 pm

Even the Ground Shakes Beneath Your Feet

As I stood outside our home in Santa Monica yesterday after the earthquake, having apparently done exactly the opposite of what I was supposed to do, which is stay inside, find...

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Oct.14.2008 - 10:40 am

In response to: From First Story to First Novel: Dreaming the Biggest Dream of All

I know, you think you're going to be happy and then...

...you have to write a second book! And it all starts all over again. It's so hard to start the next thing. Your...

About Deirdre

Deirdre Shaw's first novel, Love or Something Like It, will be published by Random House in April 2009. Her fiction has appeared in Swink and Folio, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and The New York Observer. She held fiction...

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Causes Deirdre Shaw Supports

Planned Parenthood, Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation, Los Angeles Library Foundation