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Lawrence Sutin (born October 12, 1951) is the author of two memoirs, two biographies, a novel and a work of history.

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Lawrence Sutin
Sutin in 2013
Born	(1951-10-12) October 12, 1951 (age 70) Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Occupation	Author, Erasure (artform) artist
Education	University of Michigan (BA) Harvard Law
Genre	memoir, biography, novel, history
Spouse	Mab Nulty
Children	1
Website
www.lawrencesutin.com

History of works

Sutin's debut book was Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick.[1] He subsequently edited two volumes of writings by Dick, In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis and The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings.

Sutin then served as editor, interviewer and author for Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance, about his parents' experiences in Jewish partisan units in wartime Poland.[2]

Sutin's second biography was Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley.

Sutin has also published A Postcard Memoir, a set of interlocking short pieces each faced by a vintage postcard image from the author's collection.[2]

His next work was All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.[3]

Most recently, Sutin has published a novel, When To Go Into the Water.[4]

Erasure art

Sutin creates erasure books with collaged and altered texts; excerpts from these have been published online in the literary journals WaterStone and Sleet,[5] and are also on view at his website.[6]

In July 2021, Sutin was awarded a blue ribbon at the Island County fair in the bookmaking class for his erasure work "Lives of the Great Composers".[7]

Professional

Sutin was a full professor in the M.F.A. and M.L.S. programs at the Hamline University Creative Writing Program in St. Paul, Minnesota.[1] He retired from Hamline in 2015. He was also a faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He retired from Vermont College in 2016.

Bibliography

• Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick (1989(REV.2005))
• In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis (editor)(1991)
• Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance (1995)
• The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (editor)(1996)
• Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley (2000)
• A Postcard Memoir (2000)
• All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West (2006)
• When To Go Into the Water (2009)

References

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