Paula Sharp is an American author whose fictional works focus on the American family and explore themes of social injustice. Her books include The Woman Who Was Not All There (Harper & Row 1988), The Imposter (HarperCollins, 1991), Lost in Jersey City (HarperCollins 1993), Crows over a Wheatfield (Hyperion 1996) and I Loved You All (Hyperion 2000). She is also a translator of Latin American fiction, including Antonio Skármeta's La insurrección (The Insurrection). Paula Sharp was born in San Diego, California in 1957. Her parents, nuclear physicist Rodman Sharp and anthropologist Rosemary Sharp, divorced when Sharp was eight. Her mother, a southerner by birth, subsequently relocated the family to Chapel Hill, North Carolina and pursued field work in Mexico and Guatemala. Three years later, the family relocated again to New Orleans. In an interview, Sharp noted that her southern upbringing and early exposure to Latin American culture influenced her literary tastes: "I was raised on Borges and Faulkner, Cortázar and Tennessee Williams, Octavio Paz and Flannery O'Connor, and thus my view of writing was bound to be a little odd: imagine Flem Snopes cheating Borges out of piece of fatback, only to awaken and discover that Borges and the fatback are a dream, but that Flem Snopes is real. That about sums up the way I grew up thinking about literature – it was a territory full of tantalizing ideas and wild characters.” More information...
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