Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore is a literary fiction author from Madison, Wisconsin where she has been living for more than fourteen years. She is best known for penning fiction works full of humor and wit, wisecracks, pithy one-liners, and repartee.Since 1984, she has been employed at the University of Wisconsin as an English professor. She was born in Glens Falls New York in 1957 and was given the name Marie Lorena Moore, even though her parents nicknamed her Lorrie.Her father then was an executive with an insurance company while her mother was a housewife having quit her profession as a nurse in which she had worked for several years.