{{short description|American novelist}}

'''Anne Leaton''' (born July 13, 1932 - January 25, 2016) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet whose works have been published in England and America and whose radio plays have been broadcast on the BBC.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.memorialsolutions.com/sitemaker/sites/THOMPS6/memsol.cgi?user_id=1740253 |title=Obituary for Anne Leaton - FORT WORTH, TX |date=2016 |website=www.memorialsolutions.com |access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref>

==Life== Born in Cleburne, Texas, she studied English and creative writing at Indiana University and Texas Tech University and was a Fulbright scholar to Germany, after which she spent twenty years traveling and working in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and Canada.

She received numerous awards for her fiction and poetry, including twice being the recipient of an O. Henry Award for her short stories. Leaton's work has been compared to other writers whose focus has been primarily upon social mores and human foibles—specifically such novelists and short story writers as Jane Austen, Henry James, and John Cheever.

She lived in Fort Worth, Texas.<ref>[http://www.pw.org/content/anne_leaton_1"Anne Leaton"] at ''Poets & Writers''.</ref>

==Works==

=== Novels === *{{cite book| title=Good Friends, Just| publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=1983| isbn=978-0-7011-2711-4 }} *{{cite book| title=Pearl| publisher=Knopf| year=1985| isbn=978-0-394-53923-2| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/pearlleat00leat}} *{{cite book| title=Blackbird, Bye, Bye| publisher=Virago| year=1989| isbn=978-1-85381-012-1 }}

===Short stories=== *{{cite book| title=Mayakovsky, My Love| publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=1984| isbn=978-0-7011-2814-2 }} *{{Cite book |title=Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction |last=Leaton |first=Anne |publisher=Faber and Faber Limited |year=1983 |isbn=0-571-13188-3 |location=London |pages=103-120 |editor-last=Mars-Jones |editor-first=Adam |chapter=Idyll}}

===Radio play=== *{{cite book| title=Circus Baby: a play for radio| author=Anne Leaton| author2=Colin Fish| publisher=Prix Italia| year=1976 }}

===Anthologies=== * {{cite book| title=Mothers: by Daughters| editor=Joanna Goldsworthy| publisher=Virago| year=1995| isbn=978-1-85381-793-9 }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy (eds), ''A Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present'',. Yale University Press, 1990.

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