Lynn Z. Bloom

LYNN Z. BLOOM launched her literary career as a writer of creative nonfiction (before the label was invented) with Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical (1972), and has since published twenty-one books. Her most recent books are The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays (2008), and Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times (2008). Among her 175 plus shorter works, “(Im)Patient,” (2005), was named a Notable American Essay. Her food and travel writings include “Consuming Prose: The Delectable Rhetoric of Food Writing” (2008), and “Why the Worst Trips Make the Best Stories” (2015). Bloom, who received her PhD from the University of Michigan, is Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of Connecticut Storrs, and a Honorary Professor at the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand. She has received awards from the Fulbright Program, the National Institute of the Humanities, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, among others.