MAMEVE MEDWED
Born in Maine and named for two grandmothers, Mamie and Eva, Bangor’s “other” writer (after Stephen King), Mameve Medwed is the author of five novels, Mail, Host Family, The End of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, (2007 Massachusetts Book Award Honors in Fiction) and Of Men and Their Mothers (Booksense notable pick for May 2008) Her short stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in, among others, Yankee, Redbook, Playgirl, The Boston Globe, Ascent, The Missouri Review, Confrontation, The Readerville Journal, Newsday and The Washington Post.
Mameve recorded an excerpt from How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life for the May 2010 issue of The Drum.
